Новинки Амартия Кумара Сена

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals
Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged 19.
Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. He remembers his river journeys between Dhaka and his parents' ancestral homes and wonderfully explores the rich history and culture of Bengal. In 1943 he witnessed the disastrous unfolding of the Bengal Famine, and the following year the inflaming of tensions between Hindus and Muslims. In the years before Independence, some of his family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule.
Central to Sen's formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and exciting conversations in the Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. In Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading economists and philosophers of the day, especially with the great Marxist thinker Piero Sraffa, who provided a direct connection not only to Wittgenstein, but to Antonio Gramsci and the anti-fascist battles in Italy in the 1920s. After years in Europe and America, the book ends when he returns to Delhi in 1963.
Home in the World shows how Sen's experience shaped his ideas - about economics, philosophy, identity, community, famines, gender inequality, social choice and the power of discussion in public life. The joys of learning and the importance of friendship are powerfully conveyed. He invokes some of the great thinkers of the past and his own time - from Ashoka in the third century BC and Akbar in the sixteenth, to David Hume, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Maurice Dobb, Kenneth Arrow and Eric Hobsbawm. Above all, Sen emphasises the importance of enlarging our views as much as we can, of human sympathy and understanding across time and distance, and of being at home in the world.

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice.
Is justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?
At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable, and competing positions can each be well defended. Rather than rejecting these pluralities, we should use them to construct a theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view. Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism and address vital questions of global injustice.
The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.

From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India.
India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints.
Out of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues Amartya Sen, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.

Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen.
Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was

Что такое социальная справедливость? Недостижимый идеал или одна из многих осуществимых возможностей? Вовсе не будучи вопросом досужих размышлений, идея справедливости играет важную роль в том, как – и насколько хорошо – живут люди. В настоящей книге выдающийся экономист Амартия Сен предлагает убедительную критику теорий социальной справедливости, которые не учитывают практические реалии.

Трансцендентальная теория справедливости, которая расцвела в эпоху Просвещения, имеет сегодня немало сторонников среди выдающихся философов; ее предметом является идеально справедливое социальное устройство, определяющее природу идеально справедливого общества. Сен, напротив, уделяет внимание сравнительным суждениям о том, что считается «более» или «менее» справедливым, и сравнительным достоинствам различных обществ, которые сложились вследствие определенных институтов и социальных взаимодействий.

В основе рассуждений Сена лежит признание обоснованных различий в нашем понимании того, что представляет собой «справедливое общество». Представители различных подходов – например, утилитаристы, экономические эгалитаристы, теоретики права на труд, либертарианцы – могут предлагать свои обоснованные ответы на вопросы, касающиеся справедливости, и все эти ответы будут совершенно разными. В свете этого Сен призывает читателей принять сравнительный подход к справедливости, позволяющий делать выбор между альтернативами, с которыми нам неизбежно приходится сталкиваться.

В феврале 2008 г. президент Франции Николя Саркози обратился к нобелевским лауреатам по экономике Джозефу Стиглицу и Амартии Сену, а также выдающемуся французскому экономисту Жану-Полю Фитусси с предложением создать комиссию из ведущих экономистов для изучения вопроса о том, является ли ВВП надежным индикатором экономического и социального прогресса. Настоящая книга – результат работы этой комиссии. Авторы предлагают всестороннее рассмотрение недостатков ВВП как показателя благополучия общества, обращая внимание, например, на то, что ВВП не учитывает экономического неравенства или последствий экономических решений для окружающей среды. Вместо ВВП авторы предлагают целый спектр понятий – от устойчивых показателей экономического благосостояния до измерений сбережений и богатства и "зеленого ВВП". В то время когда правительства во всем мире сталкиваются с беспрецедентными глобальными финансовыми и экологическими проблемами, настоящая книга может служить руководством для измерения того, что действительно важно.

The Idea of Justice

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Profound and humane, Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny examines some of the most explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war.
In this penetrating book, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues that we are becoming increasingly divided along lines of religion and culture, ignoring the many other ways in which people see themselves, from class and profession to morals and politics. When we are put into narrow categories the importance of human life becomes lost.
Through his lucid exploration of such subjects as multiculturalism, fundamentalism, terrorism and globalization, he brings out the need for a clear-headed understanding of human freedom and a constructive public voice in Global civil society. The hope of harmony in today's world lies in a clearer understanding of our sheer diversity.