Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen spoke about power, justice, and ‘capabilities’ in the Demos Annual Lecture 2010. Watch the debate and revisit our archive
In honour of Amartya Sen in the openDemocracy archive:
A theory of human rights by James R Mensch,
Under one roof: a Brazilian in Goa by Arthur Ituassu
Poverty and political freedom by Rajeev Bhargava
The missing value in British politics by Nick Couldry
Michael Collins on Identity and Violence
Amartya Sen was born in west Bengal in 1933. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1998-2004, and is currently Lamont University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity , and Identity and Violence: the illusion of destiny . His books have been translated into thirty languages.
