Home in the World - Amartya Sen
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, Autobiography & Biographies, Adults
The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called a global intellectual (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places home, including Dhaka, in modern Bangladesh; Kolkata, where he first studied economics; and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he engaged with the greatest minds of his generation., In Home in the World, these homes collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century life. Here Sen, one of the most distinguished minds of our time (New York Review of Books), interweaves scenes from his remarkable life with candid philosophical reflections on economics, welfare, and social justice, demonstrating how his experiencesin Asia, Europe, and later Americavitally informed his work. In exquisite prose, Sen evokes
