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Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998. (June 2017)

How Australians Vote

September 28, 2017 issue

Supporters of Emmanuel Macron celebrating his victory in the French presidential election, Paris, May 2017

A Better Way to Choose Presidents

Because it reduces vote-splitting, majority rule would encourage more major candidates to run in the general election.

June 8, 2017 issue

Letter

How Australians Vote

September 28, 2017 issue

‘The Electoral Vote: Now Let Us Look at It from Another Point of View’; illustration by Thomas Nast, 1876

A New Electoral System

The simplest voting reform would be to replace plurality rule with majority rule in state primaries.

January 19, 2017 issue

A rendering of the new campus of Nalanda University, to be built in the town of Rajgir, Bihar, India, a few miles away from the original university, which was founded in the early fifth century and destroyed in the 1190s

India: The Storm Over Nalanda

Relations have become troubled between the newly elected government of India and the governing board of Nalanda University

August 13, 2015 issue

A sign saying that pre-natal sex determination is illegal, St. Stephen’s Hospital, New Delhi, 2005

‘India’s Women: The Mixed Truth’—An Exchange

December 19, 2013 issue

Women shielding themselves from a dust storm, Rajasthan, India, 1983; photograph by Steve McCurry from his book Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs, which includes fourteen of his photo stories from India, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and other countries, along with essays about his work and ephemera from his personal archive. It has just been published by Phaidon.

India's Women: The Truth

October 10, 2013 issue

Exchange

‘India’s Women: The Mixed Truth’—An Exchange

December 19, 2013 issue

Girls in a classroom in the Indian model village of Ralegan Siddhi, northeast of Pune, Maharashtra, 2006

Quality of Life: India vs. China

May 12, 2011 issue

The Bengal Famine

May 12, 2011 issue

The Truth About the Bengal Famine

March 24, 2011 issue

Engraving by Grandville

Health Care, Elsewhere: An Exchange

July 16, 2009 issue

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the ‘New World, New Capitalism’ symposium, Paris, January 8, 2009. Amartya Sen also attended the symposium.

Capitalism Beyond the Crisis

March 26, 2009 issue

Exchange

Health Care, Elsewhere: An Exchange

July 16, 2009 issue

Passage to China

December 2, 2004 issue

East and West: The Reach of Reason

July 20, 2000 issue

Tagore and His India

June 26, 1997 issue

Population: Delusion and Reality

September 22, 1994 issue

The Threats to Secular India

April 8, 1993 issue

The Kerala Difference

October 24, 1991 issue

More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing

December 20, 1990 issue

Letter

Barbara H. Chasin

The Kerala Difference

October 24, 1991 issue

Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment

June 14, 1990 issue

Neopersuasion

Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

by Irving Kristol

March 1, 1984 issue

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