Texts: Marie Le Breton, Philippe Séclier


  Amartya Sen of India, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, brought a new dimension to the field of economics, a “critical conscience,” according to one of his peers. The Indian society in which he grew up, a hub of contrasts, forged his breadth of character as an adult and influenced his work. His universalist approach makes him open to the heterogeneity of the world and of knowledge.

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