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Article: Winning Argument; Take him on at your own risk. Amartya Sen is more than just a leading economist.
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- Newsweek International
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- October 24, 2005
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Byline: Shashi Tharoor
One Indian, the old joke goes, is a monologue; two Indians are a debate; three Indians, two political parties. That Indians are argumentative seems beyond dispute. But it takes an economist of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's standing to convert that proposition into a magisterial book. "The Argumentative Indian" (432 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a collection of 16 essays--mostly expanded from lectures and previously published articles--that attest to the depth and eclecticism of his intellect. "I've always liked arguing with people," he says from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in between trips to New York and Florence in his ...
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