Has beens Quotes by Amartya Sen

10 Has beens quotes by Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen’s economic and philosophical lens offers a nuanced view of past experiences. Across ten concise quotes he highlights how having been can inform both personal welfare and broader social choice.

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[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and,…

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I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,…

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Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable…

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I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

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I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities…

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The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education…

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An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,…

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After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the…

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In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,…

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South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,…

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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

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We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content…

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“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…

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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