Frases de Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen
Fecha de nacimiento: 3. Noviembre 1933
Otros nombres:Amartya Kumar Sen
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Amartya Kumar Sen es un filósofo y economista bengalí, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Economía en 1998.
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„the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute“
— Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
„If Walter Bagehot was right that “one of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea,” Ken caused an extraordinary amount of pain. Both in his economic thinking and in his political activities, he was dedicated to resisting, and where possible overturning, what he famously called “conventional wisdom” (one of his many turns of phrase that have since become commonplace locutions). Rejecting the standard economic theory based on small, anonymous households and firms that autonomously engage in perfectly functioning markets, Ken instead saw an economic stage dominated by large, nameable actors: big business, big labor, big government. Sorting out their roles and respective power was central to his analysis, and the continually shifting tensions in the interplay among them—“countervailing power” in another of his deft phrases—was the real story of how an economy behaved.“
— Amartya Sen
Stephen A. Marglin, Richard Parker, Amartya Sen, and Benjamin M. Friedman, “John Kenneth Galbraith”, Harvard Gazette (February 7, 2008)
