{"title":"Books by Amartya, FBA Sen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141027807","title":"Identity and Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfound and humane, Amartya Sen's \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e examines some of the most explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In this penetrating book, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues that we are becoming increasingly divided along lines of religion and culture, ignoring the many other ways in which people see themselves, from class and profession to morals and politics. When we are put into narrow categories the importance of human life becomes lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Through his lucid exploration of such subjects as multiculturalism, fundamentalism, terrorism and globalization, he brings out the need for a clear-headed understanding of human freedom and a constructive public voice in Global civil society. The hope of harmony in today's world lies in a clearer understanding of our sheer diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Identity and Violence is a moving, powerful essay about the mischief of bad ideas'\u003cbr\u003e  The Economist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Impassioned, eloquent and often moving, Identity and Violence is a sustained attack on the \"solitarist\" theory which says that human identities are formed by membership of a single social group' \u003cbr\u003e  John Gray, Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Rich in ideas ... I would love to send it to Osama bin Laden and have his reply'\u003cbr\u003e  Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Sen's moving and most personal book yet'\u003cbr\u003e  The Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Stimulating ... simple and persuasive'\u003cbr\u003e  Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'An accessible and exceptional humanitarian'\u003cbr\u003e  Jon Snow, New Statesman Heroes of Our Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAmartya Sen \u003c\/b\u003eis Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His other books published by Penguin include \u003ci\u003eThe Argumentative Indian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224266682741,"sku":"9780141027807","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141027807_d295423a-3676-4e52-abe8-e364a27de94b.jpg?v=1786011542"},{"product_id":"9780141012117","title":"The Argumentative Indian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen,\u003ci\u003e The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Out of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues Amartya Sen, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Profound and stimulating ... the product of a great mind at the peak of its power'\u003cbr\u003e  William Dalrymple, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'One of the most influential public thinkers of our times...This is a book that needed to have been written...It would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as Edward Said's \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e  Soumya Bhattacharya, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The winner of the 1998 Nobel prize in economics is a star in India ... he deserves the recognition ... shows that the argumentative gene is not just a part of India's make-up that can easily be wished away'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAmartya Sen \u003c\/b\u003eis Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Violence \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDevelopment as Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into thirty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224358203765,"sku":"9780141012117","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141012117_8ab833fb-79ab-4c99-83f5-f5ed135d32f8.jpg?v=1786011277"},{"product_id":"9780141037851","title":"The Idea of Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Is justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable, and competing positions can each be well defended. Rather than rejecting these pluralities, we should use them to construct a theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view. Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism and address vital questions of global injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A major advance in contemporary thinking'\u003cbr\u003e  John Gray, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls's \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e  Hilary Putnam, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Sen writes with dry wit, a feel for history and a relaxed cosmopolitanism ... a conviction that economists and philosophers are in business to improve the world burns on almost every page'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Decade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAmartya Sen \u003c\/b\u003eis Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe Argumentative Indian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Violence \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDevelopment as Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. 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When and how can we compare the distribution of welfare in different societies?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese questions, from the citation by the Swedish Academy of Sciences when Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, refer to his work in \u003ci\u003eCollective Choice and Social Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e, the most important of all his early books. Originally published in 1970, this classic work in welfare economics has been recognized for its ground-breaking role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of research in social choice, including aggregative assessment. It has also had a large influence on international organizations, including the United Nations, particularly in its work on human development. In its original version, the book showed that the 'impossibility theorems' in social choice theory-led by the pioneering work of Kenneth Arrow-need not be seen as destructive of the possibility of reasoned and democratic social choice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSen's ideas about social choice, welfare economics, inequality, poverty and human rights have continued to evolve since the book's first appearance. This expanded edition, which begins by reproducing the 1970 edition in its entirety, goes on to present eleven new chapters of new arguments and results. As in the original version, the new chapters alternate between non-mathematical chapters completely accessible to all, and those which present mathematical arguments and proofs. The reader who prefers to shun mathematics can follow all the non-mathematical chapters on their own, to receive a full, informal understanding. There is also a substantial new introduction which gives a superb overview of the whole subject of social choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225170588021,"sku":"9780141982502","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141982502_a21332ac-308d-490e-b393-111ef9f7a72b.jpg?v=1786011001"},{"product_id":"9780198297581","title":"Development as Freedom","description":"In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57697064681845,"sku":"9780192893307","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56226302165365,"sku":"9780198297581","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192893307.jpg?v=1793083665"},{"product_id":"the-cement-of-humanity","title":"The Cement of Humanity","description":"We live in a world of deep deprivations.  Billions lack access to health care and education.  A great many people live on incomes below the poverty line.  Political dissent is brutally suppressed in many parts of the world and a million or more are held in jail for speaking truth to power. At a time when human rights are being dismissed ever more forcefully, Amartya Sen argues that their foundation lies not in the goodwill of governments or the survival of enlightened institutions, but something far more powerful and enduring: our ability to reason.   The Cement of Humanity presents a reasoned investigation of the idea and usefulness of human rights. Engaging with rich traditions of reasoning – from the arguments of Gautama Buddha in the 5th century BCE to Magna Carta and the work of Enlightenment thinkers like David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft – the book shows that human rights are the product of many cultures and civilizations across the world.   Sen also extends and reorients the works of John Rawls, Kenneth Arrow and other contemporary thinkers.  He argues that we should abandon the common insistence on the ability to compare and rank every choice (as in standard moral theory such as Benthamite utilitarianism) and shows the limits of our reliance on the social contract approach of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and others. The book also explores the diverse relations between factual recognition and moral obligation, allowing room for constructive reasoning. Crucially, it demonstrates the possibility of social choice accommodating a plurality of values.   Philosophically rigorous, bracingly practical and full of Sen’s characteristic acuity, this is a remarkable treatise from one of the world’s leading public intellectuals.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499194065269,"sku":"9780241830741","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-amartya-fba-sen.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}