Mar 15, 06: Nobel Laureate Economist Amartya Sen
An Interview with Amartya Sen by Raj Mankad
Amartya Sen was the 1998 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics. He also received the Bharat Ratna, the highest honor given by the President of India, among many other accolades for his groundbreaking work on famines, welfare economics, social choice theory, feminist economics, human rights and capabilities, and the economics of peace and war. He is currently the Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard. Raj speaks with Professor Sen about his most recent book, The Argumentative Indian, which tells the history of reason, skepticism, and secularism in India.
Raj Mankad is the Managing Editor of Feminist Economics and a graduate of the University of Houston's MFA program in Creative Writing. Recently he was profiled in the Texas Observer as an emerging writer.
