January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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“The Possibility of Social Choice,” American Economic Review, 89(3), June 1999; also in Les 

Prix Nobel 1998 (The Nobel Foundation, 1999); French translation, “La possibilité du 

choice social,” Revue de l'Ofce, Juillet 1999. 

 

   

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WELFARE ECONOMICS 

 

 

“Distribution, Transitivity and Little's Welfare Criterion,” Economic Journal, 73 (December  

 

 

1963). 

 

 

 

“The Efficiency of Indirect Taxes,” in XXX, ed., Problems of Economic Dynamics and Planning: 

Essays in Honour of M. Kalecki (Warsaw, 1964). 

 

 

 

“Mishan, Little and Welfare: A Reply,” Economic Journal, 75 (1965). 

 

 

 

“Labour Allocation in a Cooperative Enterprise,” Review of Economic Studies, 333 (July 1966). 

 

 

 

“A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Theories of Collectivism in Allocation,” in T. Majumdar, 

ed., Growth and Choice  (London: Oxford University Press, 1969). 

 

 

 

“Planner’s Preferences, Optimality, Distribution and Social Welfare,” in J. Margolis and H. 

Guitton, eds., Public Economics (London: Macmillan, 1969). 

 

 

 

“On Ignorance and Equal Distribution,” American Economic Review, 63 (December, 1973). 

 

 

 

“Informational Basis of Alternative Welfare Approaches: Aggregation and Income 

Distribution,” Journal of Public Economics, 3 (1974). 

 

 

“The Concept of Efficiency,” in M. Parking and A. R. Nobay ed. Contemporary Issues in 

Economics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1975). 

 

 

 

“Welfare Inequalities and Rawlsian Axiomatic,” Theory and Decision, 7 (1976). 

 

 

 

“Non-linear Social Welfare Functions,” in R. Butts and J. Hintikka, eds., Logic, Methodology 

and Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1977). 

 

 

 

“The Poverty of Welfarism,” Economic Review, 8 (Spring 1977). 

 

 

 

“Welfare Theory,” in M. J. Beckmann et al, eds., Handworterbuch der Mathematischen 

Wirtschaftswissenschaften [Encyclopedic Handbook of Mathematical Economic Sciences] 

(Wiesbaden: Gabler, 1979). 

 

 

 

“Personal Utilities and Public Judgments: Or What's Wrong with Welfare Economics?” 

Economic Journal, 89 (September 1979). 

 

 

 

“A Reply to Welfarism: A Defence against Sen's Attack,” Economic Journal, 9l (June 198l). 

 

 

 

“The Profit Motive,” Lloyds Bank Review, 147 (January 1983). 

 

 

 

“Goods and People,” Proceedings of Seventh World Congress of the International Economic 

Association (London: Macmillan, 1987); also published in Resources, Values and 

Development (1984). 

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“The Concept of Well-being,” in S. Guhan and M. Shroff, eds., Essays on Economic Progress 

and Welfare: In Honour of I.G. Patel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). 

 

 

 

Welfare Economics and the Real World, Acceptance paper for the Frank Seidman Distinguished 

Award in Political Economy (Memphis, TN: P.K. Seidman Foundation, 1986). 

 

 

 

“Justice,” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (London: Macmillan, 1987). 

 

 

 

“Social Välfärd” [“Social Welfare”], in the Annual Report of the Swedish Economic Council 

(1991). 

 

 

 

“Welfare Economics and Population Ethics,” presented at the Nobel Jubilee Symposium 

on “Population, Development and Welfare,” Lund University (1991). 

 

 

 

“Welfare, Preference and Freedom,” Journal of Econometrics, 50 (1991). 

 

 

Money and Value: On the Ethics and Economics of Finance, The First Baffi Lecture (Rome: Bank 

of Italy, 1991); republished in Economics and Philosophy, 9 (1993). 

 

 

 

“Markets and Freedoms,” Oxford Economic Papers, 45 (1993). 

 

 

 

 

“The Economics of Life and Death,” Scientific American, 266 (1993) 

 

 

 

 

“Markets and the Freedom to Choose,” in Horst Siebert, ed., The Ethical Foundations of the 

Market Economy (Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1994). 

 

 

 

“Well-Being, Capability and Public Policy,” Giornale Degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 

(July-September 1994). 

 

 

“Demography and Welfare Economics,” Empirica, 22 (1995). 

 

 

 

“On the Foundations of Welfare Economics: Utility, Capability and Practical Reason,” in F. 

H. Hahn, et al., eds., Ethics, Rationality and Economic Behavior, (Oxford: Oxford 

University Press, 1996). 

 

 

“Democracy and Social Justice,” presented at the Seoul Conference on Democracy, Market 

Economy and Development, February 26-27, 1999; published in World Bank 

Development Outlook (Summer 1999). 

 

 

 

 

“Eonomic Policy and Equity: An Overview,” in Vito Tanzi et al., eds., Economic Policy and 

Equity (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 1999). 

 

 

 

“Foreword,” in Peter Bauer, From Subsistence to Exchange, and Other Essays (Princeton: 

Princeton University Press, 2000). 

 

 

 

“Merit and Justice,” in Kenneth Arrow, et al., eds., Meritocracy and Economic Inequality 

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). 

 

 

 

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ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT 

 

 

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