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The Idea of Justice
[Paperback]Author(s):Amartya K. SenIs justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? This title presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us in the wrong direction in general. -
Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy
[Hardback]A collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. -
Famine in North Korea Markets, Aid, and Reform
[Paperback]Foreword by:Amartya K. SenIn the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick -
Globalisation Laid Bare Lessons in International Business
[Paperback]What is the ethical stance that the world should take on globalisation? How are lives and businesses influenced through international trade when ideas, goods and funding are adopted by other cultures? This title identifies the insights that drive globalisation, and where we should look for answers. -
Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
[Paperback]Author(s):Paul FarmerForeword by:Amartya K. SenPathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue that the promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. -
Identity and Violence The Illusion of Destiny
[Paperback]Author(s):Amartya K. SenThe world is increasingly taken to be divided between religions (or 'cultures' or 'civilizations'), ignoring the relevance of other ways in which people see themselves through class, gender, profession and language. This book argues that conflict and violence are sustained today, no less than the past, but by the illusion of a unique identity. -
Hinduism
[Paperback]Author(s):K. M. SenForeword by:Amartya K. SenDiscusses the evolution of Hinduism's central systems of belief and codes of conduct, as well as popular cults and sects such as Bhakti, Tantrika and the mystics of North India, and describes the varying incarnations of its supreme deity, Krishna and Rama among them. -
The Argumentative Indian Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
[Paperback]Author(s):Amartya K. SenOffering writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, this book outlines the need to understand India in the light of its argumentative tradition for the success of India's democracy, the defense of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace. -
Identity and Violence The Illusion of Destiny
[Paperback]Author(s):Amartya K. SenOne of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion. Nadine Gordimer -
Civil Paths to Peace Report of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding
[Paperback]Foreword by:Amartya K. SenThis report examines the issues of terrorism, extremism, conflict and violence, which are much in ascendancy and afflict Commonwealth countries as well as the rest of the world, and considers methods of countering disaffection and violence through civil means.
