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, 2009 Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher.
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Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms
British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
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Amartya Sen o prawach człowieka [Sen on human rights] [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2014 The article discusses the idea of ‘human rights’ and the Amartya Sen’s reflections on that topic. By assumption, Sen does not present a catalogue of human rights, yet he claims that the language of human rights can be used to talk about the so-called ...
Katarzyna Guczalska
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
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Justice and Democracy in Amartya Sen
Politikon, 2013 The present paper aims at delivering a critical view of the links between justice and democracy as set by Amartya Sen’s paramount work on these themes, “The Idea of Justice”, by considering the constitutional and political experience of India. A central
Antonio Puggioni
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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Belleten, 2013 Hindistanlı bir iktisatçı olan Amartya Sen'in eserleri değişik zamanlara ve mekanlara nüfûzu açısından dikkate değerdir. İktisadî kalkınma hakkındaki yazılarında Amartya Sen, sık sık imparator Ashoka ve Ekber Şah gibi Hindistan ...
Fatih Bayram
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Capitalismo cognitivo e renda universal: do igualitarismo transcendental ao direito biopolítico
Revista Direitos Culturais, 2017 Em A ideia de justiça, Amartya Sen procura consolidar uma crítica pragmática às teorias contemporâneas da justiça que, a exemplo de John Rawls ou de Ronald Dworkin, se limitam a identificar arranjos institucionais transcendentalmente justos.
Murilo Duarte Costa Corrêa
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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT International education practices and trends, particularly student mobility, remain largely shaped by Global North perspectives. Although scholars have repeatedly called for the dismantling of Western dominance and supremacy in international education, there is still limited understanding of how this can be achieved and what the decolonising ...
Ly Thi Tran, Trang Thuy Le
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