contemporary liberal
Amartya Sen
b. 1933
How Amartya Sen is discussed in this archive
Authored 1 work in the archive.
Referenced in 5 other works — including LIFE AFTER LIBERALISATION , Encoding Privacy in a Digital World , and Globalisation and The Poor .
In LIFE AFTER LIBERALISATION : Sen is cited (alongside Bhagwati) as one of the founders of the modern economic philosophy that Ganguly says India must draw on in the post-liberalisation transition.
In Encoding Privacy in a Digital World : Amartya Sen is named in the author's biographical note as one of the thinkers whose work informs her approach to development economics and policy, signalling Sen's influence on the essay's political-economy lens.
In Globalisation and The Poor : Norberg cites Sen's expansive definition of poverty — as powerlessness and deprivation of freedom rather than mere material lack — to argue that human development, not just income metrics, is the correct measure of globalisation's impact on the poor.
In Globalisation and the Poor - Johan Norberg : Norberg leans on Sen's capability-style critique to acknowledge that poverty is wider than income — about powerlessness and unfreedom — before defending material measurement as still indispensable.
In Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth : Sen is named among the contemporary political philosophers whose work Chakraverti engages, positioning him alongside classical liberals to show the book's breadth in grounding its free-market arguments in current philosophical debate.
By Amartya Sen (1)
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Mentioned in (7)
Primary works (3)
- Population and Economic Development In India · 2005
- Population and Economic Liberalization · 1995
- LIFE AFTER LIBERALISATION · 1992
- "the modern economic philosophy produced by figures like Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati" — Ganguly invokes Sen as an intellectual asset India already possesses for the post-reform decades
Opinion pieces (1)
- Encoding Privacy in a Digital World
- "She has been surviving on Amartya Sen, Fukoyama and Karl Marx not only for the sheer joy of critiquing, analyzing and learning their works but to see how economics and developmental policies could work in tandem." — author bio at the end of the essay; lists Sen as a formative intellectual influence on her economic-policy thinking
Excerpts (3)
- Globalisation and The Poor
- "As Amartya Sen, Indian economist and Nobel laureate, has emphasised, poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider, it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice." — Sen's capability-approach definition of poverty is the normative benchmark Norberg uses to evaluate anti-globalisation claims
- Globalisation and the Poor - Johan Norberg
- "As Amartya Sen, Indian economist and Nobel laureate, has emphasised, poverty is not just a material problem." — Norberg uses Sen to concede the limits of a pure dollar-a-day poverty line, then argues the absolutist measure still matters
- Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth
- "contemporary political philosophers such as Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum" — Sen represents the modern capability-approach perspective that Chakraverti grapples with in constructing his classical-liberal framework