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I seem to remember this being a theme in Amartya Sen's work?
More Choice, Less Satisfaction?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was Tagore who prophetically chose the name Amartya -- or "immortal" -- for the only other Bengali who would go on to win the Nobel Prize.
Winning Argument 2007
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With its emphasis on distributional issues and poverty, the book rhymes well with the common theme in Amartya
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Amartya Sen famously said that famines do not occur in well-run, democratic countries.
Joe Amon: Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera Joe Amon 2010
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As Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, write in their new book Mis-Measuring Our Lives, "Income and consumption are crucial for assessing living standards, but in the end they can only be gauged in conjunction with information on wealth."
Here's Life Inner City: Exploring America's Poverty Assessment Here's Life Inner City 2010
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Amartya Sen wonders whether we run the risk of overemphasizing the importance of culture in isolation.
Global Voices in English » Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D 2009
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After months of attacks on the supposedly feckless Greeks, the western media, intellectuals such Amartya Sen and Jürgen Habermas and the United Nations have finally woken up to the fact that the catastrophic austerity imposed on Greece is unsustainable.
Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou 2011
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Amartya Sen famously said that famines do not occur in well-run, democratic countries.
Joe Amon: Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera Joe Amon 2010
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As Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, write in their new book Mis-Measuring Our Lives, "Income and consumption are crucial for assessing living standards, but in the end they can only be gauged in conjunction with information on wealth."
Here's Life Inner City: Exploring America's Poverty Assessment Here's Life Inner City 2010
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As Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, write in their new book Mis-Measuring Our Lives, "Income and consumption are crucial for assessing living standards, but in the end they can only be gauged in conjunction with information on wealth."
Here's Life Inner City: Exploring America's Poverty Assessment Here 2010
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