Amartya Sen

Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers ​​​

Why India's problems won't be solved by rapid economic growth alone

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long...

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book...