Article: Freedom as progress: Laura Wallace interviews Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen.(People In Economics)(Interview)

AS AN Indian who takes inspiration from an 18th-century Scottish economist, a French mathematician, and a renowned Bengali poet, Amartya Sen is a rare species. He successfully bridges philosophy, ethics, and economics, in the process tackling some of the most critical themes of development. An intense, energetic man, equally at home citing Western and Eastern philosophy, he is the first Indian--and the first Asian--to win the Nobel Prize for economics. But country leaders are likely to be disappointed if they hope to fly him in for a consultation. Throughout his life, he has avoided counseling governments, preferring to place his views in the public domain for discussion. ...

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