Amartya Sen's memoir, Home in the World, presents the peripatetic thinker

The Nobel Prize-winning economist has combined pure memoir with chapters on fundamental philosophical, political or economic issues

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Amartya Sen | BOOK REVIEW | Economists

Omkar Goswami 

Born in 1933, Amartya Sen is over 87 years old. At that age, most people of letters tend to relax and ruminate.

Not Sen. With Covid-19 having taken away his incessant travels and lecturing and battened him down at his house in Cambridge, Mass­ach­usetts, Sen has written his memoir — which is either his 30th or 31st book, a list that began with his PhD thesis, Choice of Techniques, published by Basil Blackwell in 1960. This book consists of five parts — comprising a combination of pure memoir with chapters on fundamental philosophical, political or economic ...

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First Published: Fri, July 23 2021. 22:34 IST
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