Don't reduce Amartya Sen to a single identity!

Antoinette Baujard

No 2202, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: This paper reviews Amartya's Sen autobiography, Home in the World. A Memoir (Penguin Press, published 08/07/2021, 480 pages.ISBN: 9781846144868), focused on his thirty first years of life. I show that the book emphasizes how Sen values discussions and reason, the voice of each human being in their plurality, and their capacity to act in and on the world. I also support that, in this memoir, Sen succeeds in circumventing the standard misunderstandings of his major contributions, by taking seriously the different potential interpretations of the thinkers who influenced his line of thinking, and defending the one he considers valid. I illustrate this claim with five cases which, by highlighting his multiple identities, avoid associating Sen to a misguided tag.

Keywords: Amartya Sen; Welfare; Discussion; Reason; Identities; Memoir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 D63 D71 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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