January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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“Our Past and Present,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLI, No. 47 (2006). 

 

“Asian Immensities,” Sixtieth Anniversary United Nations Economic and Social  

Commission for Asia and Pacific (2007). (Republished) 

 

 

"Quality of Life: India vs. China,” The New York Review of Books May 12, 2011: 44-45. 

 

"What Difference Can Tagore Make?"  Lecture at the British Museum, May 6, 2011, 

forthcoming in The New Republic. 

 

 

 (XVI)   POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT 

 

 

“Population: Delusion and Reality,” The New York Review of Books, 41 (September  

 

 

22, 1994). 

 

 

“Environmental Evaluation and Social Choice: Contingent Valuation and the Market 

Analogy,” The Japanese Economic Review, 46 (March 1995). 

 

 

“Environmental Values and Economic Reasoning,” Nexus lecture published in Dutch, 

Nexus, 13 (1995).   

 

  

“What is the Nature of the Population Problem and How Can it be Solved?,” Keio Economic 

Studies,  32(1995). 

 

 

“Population Policy: Authoritarianism versus Cooperation,” MacArthur Foundation, New 

Delhi, August 1995; reprinted in Social Change,  Jourrnal of the Council for Social 

Development, New Delhi (1996). 

 

 

“Fertility and Coercion,” The University of Chicago Law Review, 63 (Summer 1996). 

 

 

“Population and Gender Equity,” The Nation (July 24, 2000) and “Reply,” The Nation 

(November 27, 2000). 

 

 

“Human Development and Economic Sustainability,” World Development, 28 (December, 

2000).  Jointly with Sudhir Anand. 

 

 

“Foreword” to A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social & Economic Dimensions, 

eds. Neva Goodwin et al, Washington DC: Island Press, 2001. 

 

 

“Why We Should Preserve the Spotted Owl,” London Review of Books, 26 (February, 2004). 

 

 

 

(XVII) PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE 

 

“Missing Women,” British Medical Journal, 304 (March 1992). 

 

 

“Health, Inequality and Welfare Economics,” in B. G. Kumar Endowment Lecture 1995 

(Centre for Development Studies: Thiruvananthapuram, 1996). 

  

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“Objectivity, Health and Policy,” in M. Dasgupta, L. Chen and T. N. Krishnan eds., Health, 

Poverty and Development in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996). 

 

 

 

“Economics and Health,” The Lancet, 354, 1999. 

 

 

“Investing in Early Childhood: Its Role in Development,” Keynote Address delivered at 

                  Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American 

                  Investment Corporation in Paris, March 1999 (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American  

                  Development Bank, 1999). 

 

 

“Health in Development,” Keynote address to the Fifty-second World Health Assembly, 

Geneva, 18 May 1999; Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 77 (1999). 

 

 

 

“Economic Progress and Health,” in D. A. Leon and G. Walt eds., Poverty, Inequality and 

Health  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). 

 

 

“Foreword,” to N. Daniels, B. Kennedy and I. Kawachi, eds., Is Inequality Bad For Our 

Health? (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000). 

 

 

“Foreword,” to P. Svedberg, Poverty and Undernutrition: Theory, Measurement and Policy (Oxford: 

University Press, 2000). 

 

“Health: Perception versus Observation”, British Medical Journal, April 2002. 

 

“Investing in Early Childhood: Its Role in Development”, in Ricardo Moran The 

Poverty Trap, Inter-American Development Bank, edited by Mayra Buvinic, 

(distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). 

 

“Foreword,” to Is Inequality Bad for our Health? by Norman Daniels, Bruce 

Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi, ed, Joshua Cohen, (Beacon Press, 2003). 

 

“Foreword,” to Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer, University of California Press, 

Berkeley (2003). 

 

 

“Missing Women Revisited,” British Medical Journal (December 2003). 

 

“Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives,” in Public 

Health, Ethics and Equity, eds. Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter and Amartya Sen 

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).  

 

“Why Health Equity?” Journal of Health Economics, 11 (2002); also in Public Health, 

 

Ethics and Equity, eds. Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen (Oxford: 

 

Oxford University Press, 2004). 

 

"What Makes Good Health So Problematic for So Many People in India?"  The Lancet 

377.9761 (2011): 200-201. 

 

 

(XVIII) SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY 

 

 

 

“Determinism and Historical Predictions,” Enquiry, 2 (1959). 

 

 

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“Games, Justice and the General Will,” Mind, 74 (September 1965).  Jointly with W.G. 

Runciman. 

 

 

 

“Prisoner’s Dilemma and Social Justice: A Reply,” Mind, 83 (1974).  Jointly with W.G. 

Runciman. 

 

 

 

“Ethical Issues in Income Distribution: National and International,” in S. Grassman and E. 

Lundberg, eds., The World Economic Order: Past and Prospects (London: Macmillan, 1981). 

 

 

 

“The Right Not To Be Hungry,” in G. Floistad, ed., Contemporary Philosophy, 2 (The Hague: 

Martinus Nijhoff, 1982). 

 

 

 

“Rights and Capabilities,” in T. Honderich, ed., Morality and Objectivity (London: Routledge, 

1985). 

 

 

 

“Rights as Goals,” Austin Lecture to the U.K. Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, 

in S. Guest and A. Milne, eds., Equality and Discrimination: Essays in Freedom and Justice 

(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1985). 

 

 

 

“The Moral Standing of the Market,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 3 (1985); reprinted in E. F. 

Paul, F. D. Miller, Jr., and J. Paul, eds., Ethics and Economics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985). 

 

 

 

“The Right to Take Personal Risks,” in D. MacLean, ed., Values at Risk (Totowa, NJ: 

Rowman and Allanheld, 1986). 

 

 

 

“Property and Hunger,” Economics and Philosophy, 4 (1988). 

 

 

 

“Capability and Well-Being,” in M. Nussbaum and A. Sen, eds., The Quality of Life (Oxford: 

Clarendon Press, 1991). 

 

 

 

Objectivity and Position, Lindley Lecture (Kansas, University of Kansas, 1992). 

 

 

 

“On the Darwinian View of Progress,” Annual Darwin Lecture 1991, London Review of Books 

14 (5 November, 1992); republished in Population and Development Review 1993. 

 

 

“Positional Objectivity,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 22 (1993). 

 

 

 

“Objectivity and Position: Assessment of Health and Well-Being,” in Lincoln Chen, Arthur 

Kleinman and Norma Ware, eds., Health and Social Change in International Perspective 

(Boston, Mass.: Harvard School of Public Health, 1994). 

 

 

 

“On the Darwinian View of Progress: A Reply,” Population and Development Review (1994). 

 

 

 

“Thinking About Human Rights and Asian Values,” Human Rights Dialogue, 4 (March 1994). 

 

 

 

“Freedom, Capabilities and Public Action: A Response,” Notizie di Politeia, 12 (1996). 

 

 

“Human Rights and Asian Values,” The New Republic, (July 14 & 21, 1997). 

 

 

 

“Economics and the Value of Freedom,” Civilization, (June/July 1999). 

 

 

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“Things to Come,” in Sian Griffiths, ed., Predictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 

1999). 

 

 

 

“Democracy as a Universal Value,” Journal of Democracy, 10 (1999). 

 

 

“Reason before Identity,” Romanes Lecture, Oxford University, 2000 (Oxford University 

Press, 2000). 

 

 

 

“Democracy: The Only Way Out of Poverty,” New Perspectives Quarterly, 17 (Winter 2000). 

 

 

 

“East and West: The Reach of Reason,” New York Review of Books, 47 (July 20, 2000). 

 

 

“Other People,” Proceedings of the British Academy, 111 (Oxford University Press, 2001); 

shortened version in The New Republic (December 18, 2000); Spanish translation in 

Letras Libres 1, 1 (October 2001). 

 

 

“The Right to One’s Identity,” Frontline, 19 (Jan 5-18, 2002), based on a speech given in 

New Delhi, November 12, 2001 at the inaugural meeting of ‘South Asians for Human 

Rights’. 

 

 

 

“Democracy and Its Global Root,” The New Republic, October 6, 2003. 

 

 

“What’s the Point of Democracy,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, LVII, 

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(Spring 2004). 

 

 

“Social Identity,” Revue de Philosophie economique, Issue 9 (2004). 

 

 

“Dialogue Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason: Continuing the Conversation,” Feminist  

 

        Economics, 10(3) (November 2004). 

 

 

“Normative Evaluation and Legal Analogues,” in John N. Drobak, ed., Norms and the Law          

         (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).    

 

“Human Rights and the Limits of the Law,” Cardozo Law Review, 27 (April 2006). 

 

“Children and Human Rights,” Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2007). 

 

 

“Violence, Identity and Poverty,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2008). 

 

 

“Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIII, No. 7 (2008). 

 

 

“Poverty, War and Peace,” The Little Magazine, Vol.VII, Issue 3&4 (2008). 

 

 

“Foreword” to Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (2

nd

 edition, Chicago: University of 

 

       Chicago Press, 2009) 

 

"Rights, Words, and Laws."  The New Republic 241.4892 (2010): 24-29. 

 

 

(XIX)   ETHICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY 

 

 

 

“Hume's Law and Hare's Rule,” Philosophy (January 1966). 

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“The Nature and Classes of Prescriptive Judgments,” Philosophical Quarterly, 17 (January 

1967). 

 

 

 

“Choice, Ordering and Morality,” in S. Körner, ed., Practical Reason (Oxford: Blackwell, 

1974). 

 

 

 

“Rawls versus Bentham: An Axiomatic Examination of the Pure Distribution Problem,” 

Theory and Decision, 4 (1974).  Reprinted in N. Daniels, ed., Reading Rawls (Oxford: 

Blackwell, 1975). 

 

 

 

“Informational Analysis of Moral Principles,” in Ross Harrison, ed., Rational Action 

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979). 

 

 

 

“Utilitarianism and Welfarism,” Journal of Philosophy, 76 (September 1979). 

 

 

 

“Equality of What?” in S. McMurrin, ed., Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 1  

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980); reprinted in John Rawls et al., Liberty, 

Equality and Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). 

 

 

 

“A Positive Concept of Negative Freedom,” in E. Morscher and R. Stanzinger, eds., Ethics: 

Foundations, Problems, and Applications, Proceedings of the 5th International Wittgenstein 

Symposium (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 198l). 

 

 

 

“Rights and Agency,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 11 (1982); reprinted in S. Scheffler, ed., 

Consequentialism and Its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). 

 

 

 

“Liberty as Control: An Appraisal,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 7 (1982). 

 

 

 

“Liberty and Social Choice,” Journal of Philosophy, 80 (January 1983). 

 

 

 

“Evaluator Relativity and Consequential Evaluation,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 12 (Spring 

1983). 

 

 

 

“Well-being, Agency and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984,” Journal of Philosophy, 82 

(April 1985). 

 

 

 

Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment (Turin: Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, 1990); also 

published in The New York Review of Books, June 16, 1990; and in India International Centre 

Quarterly, Spring 1990. 

 

 

 

“Justice: Means versus Freedoms,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 19 (Spring 1990). 

 

 

 

“Capability and Well-Being,” in Nussbaum and Sen, eds., The Quality of Life (Oxford: 

Clarendon Press, 1993). 

 

 

“Freedoms and Needs,” New Republic (January 10 & 17, 1994). 

 

 

 

     

“Legal Rights and Moral Rights: Old Questions and New Problems,” Ratio Juris, 9 (June 

1996). 

 

 

 

“On the Status of Equality,” Political Theory, 24 (August 1996). 

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“Consequential Evaluation and Practical Reason,” Journal of Philosophy, 97 (2000). 

 

 

“Elements of a Theory of Human Rights,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 32 (2004) 

 

 

“Reason, Freedom and Well-being,” Utilitas, 18 (March 2006). 

 

 

“What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?” Journal of Philosophy, Vol. CIII, No. 5, May  

 

 

2006. 

 

 

“Open and Closed Impartiality” Journal of Philosophy, 99, 9 (September 2002): 445-469 

 

"Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith" History of Political Economy 43 (2011): 257-271. 

 

 

(XX)   MISCELLANEOUS 

 

 

“On the Delhi School,” in D. Kumar and D. Mookherjee, eds., Reflections on the Delhi School 

of Economics (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995).” 

                                

 

“This Cambridge and That,” Emmanuel Magazine, 81 (1998-1999). 

 

 

“The Play’s The Thing,” The Little Magazine, 1 (November - December 2000). 

 

 

“A World Not Neatly Divided,” The New York Times (November 23, 2001). 

 

 

“The Individual and the World,” Equality and the Modern Economy, ed. E. Wilson, (London, 

Macmillan, 200l). 

 

 

“Debating Classic Culture,” An Interview with Amartya Sen, Challenge, July/August, 2003.