--- title: "13 Economic Quotes By Amartya Sen" description: "13 Economic quotes by Amartya Sen. Plus more from Amartya Sen and more Economic sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/amartya-sen-2518_economic_the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a_140243.png" --- > [The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a-very-major-reason-for-loss-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/amartya-sen-2518_economic_the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a_140243.png) > [Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/economic-growth-without-investment-in-human-development-is/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/amartya-sen-2518_development_economic-growth-without-investment-in-hu_2723535.png) > [Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedoms-relates-directly-to-2/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/amartya-sen-2518_economic_sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedo_2886125.png) > [There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/there-s-a-clear-and-strong-connection-between-fertility-reduction-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09f/amartya-sen-2518_clear_there-s-a-clear-and-strong-connection-be_733665.jpg) > [We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/we-live-in-a-world-community-and-economic-contact-has-partly/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/amartya-sen-2518_cases_we-live-in-a-world-community-and-economi_2790672.png) > [Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/globalization-is-a-complex-issue-partly-because-economic/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/amartya-sen-2518_closeness_globalization-is-a-complex-issue-partly_845043.jpg) > [Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/thailand-s-economic-development-was-driven-by-educational-expansion/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/amartya-sen-2518_asia_thailand-s-economic-development-was-driv_276721.png) > [I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-m-generally-in-favor-of-economic-globalization-having-said-that-it/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/909/amartya-sen-2518_doe_i-m-generally-in-favor-of-economic-globa_2678789.png) > [Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/development-requires-major-source-of-unfreedom-poverty-as-well-as/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/amartya-sen-2518_deprivation_development-requires-major-source-of-unf_2962439.jpg) > [I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-attempted-to-see-famines-as-broad-economic-problems-concentrating/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/amartya-sen-2518_broads_i-attempted-to-see-famines-as-broad-econ_2429148.png) > [We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/we-live-in-a-world-where-there-is-a-need-for-pluralistic-institutions/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74c/amartya-sen-2518_different_we-live-in-a-world-where-there-is-a-need_2168664.png) > [Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedoms-relates-directly-to/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/amartya-sen-2518_achieve_sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedo_2468560.png) > [Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/education-makes-us-the-human-beings-we-are-it-has-major-impacts-on/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/amartya-sen-2518_all-kinds_education-makes-us-the-human-beings-we-a_3202287.jpg) ## Other authors on Economic ## More by Amartya Sen > [Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/capability-is-just-a-concept-of-what-is-it-we-re-looking-at-now-how/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/human-life-consists-of-doing-certain-things-to-take-part-in-the-life/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/where-the-mind-is-without-fear-and-the-head-is-held-high-where/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/violence-is-fomented-by-the-imposition-of-singular-and-belligerent/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-think-the-whole-progress-over-the-last-two-or-three-millennia-has/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/no-famine-has-ever-taken-place-in-the-history-of-the-world-in-a/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/to-say-that-certainly-america-was-very-lucky-to-get-a-large-amount-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a-very-major-reason-for-loss-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/we-need-to-ask-the-moral-questions-do-i-have-a-right-to-be-rich-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/he-wrote-extensively-on-how-schools-should-be-made-more-attractive-to/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/one-has-to-be-realistic-one-s-concern-for-equity-and-justice-in-the/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/while-i-am-interested-both-in-economics-and-in-philosophy-the-union/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-was-born-in-a-university-campus-and-seem-to-have-lived-all-my-life/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [If jobs are important, education is important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/if-jobs-are-important-education-is-important/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/thailand-s-economic-development-was-driven-by-educational-expansion/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/economic/amartya-sen/#itemlist", "name": "13 Economic Quotes By Amartya Sen", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amartya Sen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a-very-major-reason-for-loss-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/amartya-sen-2518_economic_the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a_140243.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/amartya-sen-2518_economic_the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a_140243.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/amartya-sen-2518_economic_the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a_140243.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.” — Amartya Sen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amartya Sen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/economic-growth-without-investment-in-human-development-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/amartya-sen-2518_development_economic-growth-without-investment-in-hu_2723535.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/amartya-sen-2518_development_economic-growth-without-investment-in-hu_2723535.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/amartya-sen-2518_development_economic-growth-without-investment-in-hu_2723535.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical” — Amartya Sen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amartya Sen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedoms-relates-directly-to-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/amartya-sen-2518_economic_sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedo_2886125.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/amartya-sen-2518_economic_sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedo_2886125.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/amartya-sen-2518_economic_sometimes-the-lack-of-substantive-freedo_2886125.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty” — Amartya Sen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. 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