The Idea of Justice
$32.51
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2010
Summary
A major new philosophical work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and writer
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general.
At the heart of Sen’s argument is his insistence on the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141037851 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141037857 |
| Author: | Amartya Sen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is one of the world’s leading public intellectuals. He is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005) and The Idea of Justice (2010). They have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
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