The Wise Lessons of Professor Sen

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In his Memoirs, “Citizen of the World” (Odile Jacob), the Indian Nobel Prize winner in economics recounts the genesis of his fights against inequalities.

Par Francois Miguet

The Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen, in Calcutta in 2018.
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Published on 09/10/2022 at 2:00 p.m.

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Cis an elegant Indian – always wearing a tie – with a furrowed face. Amartya Sen, 88, lives in Cambridge, in the American state of Massachusetts, not far from Harvard University, which brought him here eighteen years ago. Officially, he still teaches there. But the one whose first name means “immortal” in Bengali has unfortunately had to slow down lately. Professor Sen, Nobel Prize winner in 1998 for his work on welfare economics and social justice, no longer receives visitors. But on the occasion of the French release of his memoirs, Citizen of the world (ed. Odile Jacob), he made a point of answering in writing the questions of the Point.

What luck ! Because, in these times of return of nationalisms, it is good to dive back into the journey of this sage with…

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