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Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. A former master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom and The Idea of Justice.

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. A former master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom and The Idea of Justice.

Books by Amartya Sen

  • Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

    Amartya Sen

    Paperback, 2007

    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer
  • Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

    Amartya Sen

    E Book, 2013

    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer
  • Home in the World: A Memoir

    Amartya Sen

    Hardback, 2022

    From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity.
  • Home in the World: A Memoir

    Amartya Sen

    E Book, 2022

    From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.
  • Home in the World: A Memoir

    Amartya Sen

    Paperback, 2023

    From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.