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Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume 2$
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Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume 2: Society, Institutions, and Development

Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199239979

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239979.001.0001

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Introduction

Chapter:
(p. 1 ) Introduction
Source:
Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume 2
Author(s):

Kaushik Basu

Ravi Kanbur (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239979.003.0001

The Introduction outlines the Amartya Sen's career starting in the UK at the London School of Economics and then at Oxford. It also briefly mentions his time at Harvard and Cambridge. The chapter discusses how he became interested in poverty and basic needs during all this time. It then goes on to outline the content in the first volume and this second volume.

Keywords:   Amartya Sen, London School of Economics, Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, poverty

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