Frases de Amartya Sen

Fuente: Entrevista realizada por Mario Baudino, Amartya Sen: "Think a West tolerant intolerance against Muslims is wrong and dangerous,", La Stampa, 30 de enero de 2003

„… cuando se trata de determinar cómo puede avanzar la justicia, hay una necesidad básica de razonamiento público, que involucra argumentos procedentes de diferentes sectores y de puntos de vista divergentes. Un compromiso con los argumentos contrarios no implica, sin embargo, que debamos esperar ser capaces de resolver los motivos de conflicto en todos los casos y llegar a una posición consensuada en todas las cuestiones.“

— Amartya Sen

Fuente: Amartya Sen: "La idea de justicia". Editorial Taurus, ISBN 978-84-306-0686-3, Página 392.

„De hecho, en la terrible historia de las hambrunas mundiales es difícil encontrar un caso en el que haya habido hambruna en un país con una prensa libre y una oposición activa dentro de un marco institucional democrático. […] La libertad negativa de la prensa y los partidos de la oposición para criticar, escribir y organizar la protesta puede ser muy eficaz en la protección de la libertad positiva elemental de la población más vulnerable.“

— Amartya Sen

Fuente: Amartya Sen: "La libertad individual como compromiso social". Ediciones Abya-Yala. ISBN 9978-04-576-7, Capítulo 1.3, pág. 45)

„Aunque las economías socialistas, entre ellas las dirigidas por partidos comunistas en varias partes del mundo, han sido afectadas por los problemas económicos y políticos (incluyendo la opresión), las metas y los objetivos que previamente han atraído a la gente hacia el socialismo siguen siendo todavía importantes como lo eran hace cincuenta años. Los conceptos de justicia social también están constantemente renaciendo después de haber sido debilitados por las dificultades encontradas en la ejecución de diversos proyectos.“

— Amartya Sen

Fuente: Obra citada, Cap. 2.5, pág. 71.

„Aunque el capitalismo es, en principio, fuertemente individualista, ha contribuido en la práctica a reforzar la tendencia a la integración, ya que ha hecho nuestras vidas cada vez más interdependientes. Por otra parte, el bienestar económico sin precedentes que ha producido en las economías modernas hizo que pudieran aceptarse obligaciones sociales que anteriormente nadie hubiera podido "permitirse.“

— Amartya Sen

Fuente: Obra citada, Cap. 2.5, pág. 72.

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„La democracia debe ser juzgada no solo por las instituciones que existen formalmente, sino por el grado en que se pueden escuchar las diferentes voces de diversas secciones de la gente.“

— Amartya Sen

„A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.“

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— Amartya Sen

„A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.“

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— Amartya Sen

„If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.“

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— Amartya Sen, libro The Idea of Justice

Fuente: The Idea of Justice

„the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute“

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— Amartya Sen

Fuente: The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

„While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection“

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— Amartya Sen

„Ken also identified the corporation, not “the market,” as the defining institution of modern economic activity, developing these and related themes both in his teaching and in such widely celebrated books as American Capitalism (1952) and The New Industrial State (1967). But his interest in these ideas persisted throughout his life. The central importance of the corporation, and the fear that government was no longer able to provide an adequate countervailing force against corporate influence exerted both legally and otherwise, was the subject of his last book, The Economics of Innocent Fraud“

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— Amartya Sen

2004
Stephen A. Marglin, Richard Parker, Amartya Sen, and Benjamin M. Friedman, “John Kenneth Galbraith”, Harvard Gazette (February 7, 2008)
2000s

„I am not persuaded that Hayek got the substantive connections entirely right. He was too captivated by the enabling effects of the market system on human freedoms and tended to downplay - though he never fully ignored - the lack of freedom for some that may result from a complete reliance on the market system, with its exclusions and imperfections, and the social effects of big disparities in the ownership of assets. But it would be hard to deny Hayek's immense contribution to our understanding of the importance of judging institutions by the criterion of freedom.“

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— Amartya Sen

"An insight into the purpose of prosperity", Financial Times (September 20, 2004)
2000s, "An insight into the purpose of prosperity," 2004

„Even when altruism is allowed (as, for example, in Gary Becker's model of rational allocation), it is assumed that the altruistic actions are undertaken because they promote each person's own interests; there are personal gains to the altruist's own welfare, thanks to sympathy for others. No role is given to any sense of commitment about behaving well or to pursuing some selfless objective. All this leaves out, on the one hand, the evil passions that early theorists of capitalism contrasted with self-interest and, on the other, the social commitments that Kant analyzed in The Critique of Practical Reason and that Adam Smith discussed in The Theory of Moral Sentiments.“

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— Amartya Sen

1990s, Foreword to The Passions and the Interests (1996)

„John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.“

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— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, quoted in Jonathan Steele, " Last of the old-style liberals http://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/apr/06/socialsciences.highereducation", The Guardian (2002)
2000s

„Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.“

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— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, "Ten theses on globalization." New Perspectives Quarterly 18.4 (2001): 9-9.
2000s