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Access to Amartya Sen

Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics

His on-line books, articles, papers, news articles, and press releases

From the Institut Catala de la Mediterrania, call it the Amartya Sen Executive Summary or maybe Amartya Sen in 105 words, plus a nice picture. http://www.gencat.es/icm/asen.htm

Hunger and Public Action, full text of an on-line book, http://www.reliefnet.org/doc/hpa/hpa0.html

Press Release from the Nobel Prize Committee regarding the awarding of the prize in economics to Amartya Sen http://www.nobel.se/announcement-98/economy98.html

A Matter of Choice. Culture is the essence of development. Article. http://www.littleindia.com/india/Feb97/choice.htm Little India is a US magazine published in English for the Indian community.

Economic Interdependence and the World Food Summit, 1996 presentation, argues that the World Food Summit should extend its attention beyond food and agricdulture in order to lead the process which will eradicate hunger in the modern world. http://www.waw.be/sid/dev1996/sen

Sustainable Human Development: Concepts and Priorities, 1994. Occasional Paper 8 in Sustainable Human Development http://www.undp.org/undp/hdro/oc8a.htm

Gender Inequality in Human Development: Theories and measurement, Occasional paper 19 in Sustainable Human Development. http://www.undp.org/undp/hdro/oc19a.htm

Abstract of study on Credit, self-employment and women's welfare: a case study of Bangladesh, from the Institute of Development Studies in Helsinki, Finland, uses the Bargaining model of the household, as extended by Amartya Sen. http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/rdata/91.html

Human Rights and Asian Values, the 16th annual Morgenthau memorial lecture on ethics and foreign policy, Introduction and summary (summary by Amartya Sen) of the speech, address for ordering the full text ($5.00). http://www.cceia.org/sen.htm

Speech at the National Indian American Conference (real audio recording of the speech, no written text available) http://www.littleindia.com/niac/sen.html

Political instability may hit investment: Amartya Sen, article of 12-30-97 edition of The Hindu http://www.hinduonline.com/hindu/daily/971230/02/02300009.htm

Amartya Sen, his curriculum vitae, from Harvard, in adobe acrobat format, lists all of his books and affiliations. http://kuznets.harvard.edu/faculty/sen/sen_cv.pdf

Professor Amartya Sen's Papers on the Web, from the Department of Economics at Harvard University, currently under construction. http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/sen/papers.html

Inequality Reexamined, publicity page for this book published by Harvard University Press. http://128.103.251.49/S95books/s95long/inequality_reexamined.html

Sen's Theory, 16 January 1998, Press Trust of India article in the Indian Express. http://www.indian-express.com/ie/daily/19980116/01650924.html

Thought Summit -- Bengal Initiative, very brief summary of "A vision for Bengal and India: Beyond 2000, a conference held December 21, 1996; Amartya Sen was a speaker. http://www.westbengal.com/org/bengalin/

Speaker challenges ideas of Asian Values. Article in a Yale newspaper reporting a speech by Amartya Sen. http://www.yale.edu/ydn/paper/9.28/9.28.95storyno.EA.html

Authoritarianism versus cooperation, from the Journal of Population Economics. http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00148/bibs/7010001/70100003.htm

Poverty Expert Delighted by Nobel Prize, Yahoo! News report. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19981014/ts/nobel_23.html

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