Volume 34, Number 16 · October 22, 1987
Original Sen
By A.B. Atkinson
Choice, Welfare and Measurement
by Amartya Sen
MIT Press, 460 pp., $45.00
Resources, Values and Development
by Amartya Sen
Harvard University Press, 547 pp., $29.50
Amartya Sen occupies a unique position among modern economists. He is an outstanding economic theorist, a world authority on social choice and welfare economics. He is a leading figure in development economics, carrying out path-breaking work on appraising the effectiveness of investment in poor countries and, more recently, on famine. At the same time, he takes a broad view of the subject and has done much to widen the perspective of economists. He has made major contributions to moral philosophy, being as much at home writing for the Journal of Philosophy as for the Economic Journal. He enjoys controversy, in TV debate as well as the academic seminar, and is an incisive and entertaining lecturer.
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