Oral history interview with Amartya Sen, 2003.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Amartya Sen, 2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769110831

Background and childhood: Born in Santiniketan, India, 1933; education: St. Gregory's missionary school, Dhaka, Santiniketan school, Presidency College, Calcutta, Trinity College, Cambridge; career: professor, economics, Delhi University, 1960s, advisor and consultant to Secretary-General, International Labour Organization [ILO], United Nations Industrial Development Organization [UNIDO], United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD], World Food Programme [WFP], United Nations Development Fund for Women [UNIFEM], World Institute for Development Economics Research [WIDER], and United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], co-chair of International Commission on Human Security, 2002-3, president of Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Indian Economic Association, International Economic Association, and Oxfam, master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1998-2004, Lamont university professor, economics and philosophy, Harvard University; publications: Collective Choice and Social Welfare, On Economic Inequality, Poverty and Famines, On Ethics and Economics, Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom; awards: Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998; themes: family reminiscences, influences of poet Rabindranath Tagore, political incarceration of uncle under the Raj, recollections of witnessing a murder at age eight, reminiscences of Bengal famine and media response, idea of basic needs approach, Mahbub ul Haq and the Human Development Reports, human security.

transcript: 29 p.

Nolan, Norton & Company, Incorporated

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8180337

Nolan, Norton & Company, Incorporated

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

UNDP Asian Pacific Gender Equality Network

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60904h9 (corporateBody)

Sen, Amartya, 1933-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz3zhb (person)

Advisor, consultant to Secretary General and numerous UN agencies. From the description of Oral history interview with Amartya Sen, 2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 769110831 ...

Tagore, Rabì‚ndranà‚th, 1861-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb24fv (person)

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta on 6 May 1861. After his marriage in 1883, Tagore managed the family estates at Shileida, where he wrote many of his works. In 1901 he founded a school at Santiniketan, Bopur, Bengal, which later became the international institution, Visva-Bharati. In 1912 he visited England and translated some of his works into English. He also made visits to countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America. In 1913 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. At the...

Jolly, Richard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp5bmd (person)

Co-Director of UN Intellectual History Project, Senior Research Fellow at the City University Graduate Center, and Economist. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard Jolly, 2005. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 760170103 ...

United Nations

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t76681 (corporateBody)

In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...