Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Amartya Sen
- The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute.
- Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.
- Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable – and unethical.
- The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
- While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
- Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
- I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
- Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
- We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.
- It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality.
Amartya Sen, born on November 3, 1933, in Santiniketan, India, is a renowned economist and philosopher. He has made significant contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, and the understanding of economic development. Sen earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where he was influenced by the likes of Joan Robinson and Piero Sraffa.
Throughout his distinguished career, Sen has held various academic positions, including professorships at Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work on welfare economics and his development of the capability approach. This approach emphasizes the importance of focusing on people’s capabilities and freedoms rather than solely on economic indicators.
In addition to his economic contributions, Sen has been a vocal advocate for social justice and human rights. He has written extensively on issues such as famine, gender inequality, and poverty. Sen’s multidisciplinary approach, blending economics with philosophy and ethics, has had a profound impact on the understanding of human well-being and the policies aimed at improving it. His influential works include “Poverty and Famines,” “Development as Freedom,” and “The Idea of Justice.” Sen’s intellectual legacy extends beyond academia, shaping global discourse on social and economic issues.
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