#amartyasen — Public Fediverse posts

The Nobel Laureate expressed concern over the declining resilience of secularism in India, warning that its future hinges on resisting divisive and narrowly driven forces. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-should-lead-the-way-in-safeguarding-secularism-amartya-sen-wcmgw4z9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmartyaSen #Secularism #Kerala #IndiaNews

Trinamool Congress alleges Amartya Sen received EC notice during voter roll revision https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/amartya-sen-voter-roll-notice-tmc-ec-kqgmx4x2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #trinamoolcongress #amartyasen #SIR #voterroll

Who Are The Only Two Indians To Win The Nobel Prize For Economics? Know These Icons And Their Achievements

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/tech/100975/who-are-the-only-two-indians-to-win-the-nobel-prize-for-economics-know-these-icons-and-their-achieve

Who Are The Only Two Indians To Win The Nobel Prize For Economics? Know These Icons And Their Achievements

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/tech/100975/who-are-the-only-two-indians-to-win-the-nobel-prize-for-economics-know-these-icons-and-their-achieve

Great to see Julia Steinberger referencing the work of economist Amartya Sen. I still have a copy of Development as Freedom, it's essential reading for everyone who wants to understand the relationships between human freedoms and economics.

#economics #AmartyaSen #DevelopmentAsFreedom

@8petros @aral @gleick

Great to see Julia Steinberger referencing the work of economist Amartya Sen. I still have a copy of Development as Freedom, it's essential reading for everyone who wants to understand the relationships between human freedoms and economics.

#economics #AmartyaSen #DevelopmentAsFreedom

@8petros @aral @gleick

#Baba #AmartyaSen
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/amartya-sen-economist-not-dead-nandana-sen-daughter-2447082-2023-10-10?utm_source=rss

#Baba #AmartyaSen
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/amartya-sen-economist-not-dead-nandana-sen-daughter-2447082-2023-10-10?utm_source=rss

I wished I had enough presence of mind to occasionally ask myself “what would Amartya Sen think now?”

I'm sure I'd make better decisions if I were able to

#amartyasen #economics #philosophy

বিশ্বভারতী কর্তৃপক্ষ যা করছেন তা করতেই তাঁদের বসানো হয়েছে। এতে কী লাভ? কার লাভ? উত্তরের সন্ধানে সৌভিক ঘোষ #amartyasen @bengali_convo
https://nagorik.net/society/education/communalism-capitalism-has-hand-in-heckling-of-amartya-sen/

I've always enjoyed the dry clarity of Amartya Sen's prose. Here he discusses the supposed benefits of British Imperialism for India, saying:

#colonialism #imperialism #India #AmartyaSen #Britain (1/6) 🧵

I've always enjoyed the dry clarity of Amartya Sen's prose. Here he discusses the supposed benefits of British Imperialism for India, saying:

#colonialism #imperialism #India #AmartyaSen #Britain (1/6) 🧵

#amartyasen ভগবান নন। দুনিয়ার সব ব্যাপারে তিনি যা বলবেন তাই মেনে নিতে হবে এমন কোনো কথা নেই। কিন্তু এ কীরকম ভিন্নমত পোষণ? প্রশ্ন তুললেন @hutomp #MamataBanerjee @bengali_convo

https://nagorik.net/politics/amartya-sen-clickbait-and-bengalis/

#amartyasen ভগবান নন। দুনিয়ার সব ব্যাপারে তিনি যা বলবেন তাই মেনে নিতে হবে এমন কোনো কথা নেই। কিন্তু এ কীরকম ভিন্নমত পোষণ? প্রশ্ন তুললেন @hutomp #MamataBanerjee @bengali_convo
https://nagorik.net/politics/amartya-sen-clickbait-and-bengalis/

Interview | ‘Modi Govt Is One of the Most Appalling in the World,’ Says Amartya Sen

He said the Modi government’s treatment of Muslims, and the fact that it has no Muslim MP in either House of the parliament, is “unacceptably barbaric”.

#AmartyaSen #interview #modi #india #fascism #hindutva #minorities #muslims #secularism #christians #intolerance

https://thewire.in/rights/interview-modi-govt-is-one-of-the-most-appalling-in-the-world-says-amartya-sen

Interview | ‘Modi Govt Is One of the Most Appalling in the World,’ Says Amartya Sen

He said the Modi government’s treatment of Muslims, and the fact that it has no Muslim MP in either House of the parliament, is “unacceptably barbaric”.

#AmartyaSen #interview #modi #india #fascism #hindutva #minorities #muslims #secularism #christians #intolerance

https://thewire.in/rights/interview-modi-govt-is-one-of-the-most-appalling-in-the-world-says-amartya-sen

«Any city however small, is divided at least into two,
one the city of the poor, the other of the rich;
these are hostile to each other.» (#Plato, #Politeia, 370 BC) 

#Phyton2 script https://inequality.snrk.de/oei/ for computing the #inequality measures described in #AmartyaSen's #OEI. I added my own inequality measure to the big zoo of inequality measures. The "Plato index" is hidden in the script.

I wrote this hack many years ago and now would need quite some time to remember, what I did then.🙂

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Calling #Theil's #inequality measure an "#entropy" irritated Amartya Sen. From #AmartyaSen's "#OnEconomicInequality" (#OEI) I learned a lot about #InequalityMeasures. But entropy seems not do go down too well with him (1973) and his co-author #JamesEFoster (1997): When describing the "interesting" "#TheilEntropy" (chapter 2.11), Sen sees a contradiction between entropy being a measure of "#disorder" in #thermodynamics and entropy being a measure for "#equality".

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Calling #Theil's #inequality measure an "#entropy" irritated #AmartyaSen. From Amartya Sen's "#OnEconomicInequality" (#OEI) I learned a lot about #InequalityMeasures. But entropy seems not do go down too well with him (1973) and his co-author #JamesEricFoster (1997): When describing the "interesting" "#TheilEntropy" (chapter 2.11), Sen sees a contradiction between entropy being a measure of "#disorder" in #thermodynamics and entropy being a measure for "#equality".

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Calling #Theil's #inequality measure an "#entropy" irritated Amartya Sen. From #AmartyaSen's "#OnEconomicInequality" (#OEI) I learned a lot about #InequalityMeasures. But entropy seems not do go down too well with him (1973) and his co-author #JamesEFoster (1997): When describing the "interesting" "#TheilEntropy" (chapter 2.11), Sen sees a contradiction between entropy being a measure of "#disorder" in #thermodynamics and entropy being a measure for "#equality".

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Calling #Theil's #inequality measure an "#entropy" irritated Amartya Sen. From #AmartyaSen's "#OnEconomicInequality" (#OEI) I learned a lot about #InequalityMeasures. But entropy seems not do go down too well with him (1973) and his co-author #JamesEFoster (1997): When describing the "interesting" "#TheilEntropy" (chapter 2.11), Sen sees a contradiction between entropy being a measure of "#disorder" in #thermodynamics and entropy being a measure for "#equality".

A fascinating, even affectionate review of public intellectual giant Amartya Sen's early-life autobiography, Home in the World, by Fara Dabholwala in #NYRB. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/becoming-amartya-sen-home-in-the-world #AmartyaSen #HomeInTheWorld #Tagore #Shantiniketan #India #TrinityCollege

A fascinating, even affectionate review of public intellectual giant Amartya Sen's early-life autobiography, Home in the World, by Fara Dabholwala in #NYRB. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/becoming-amartya-sen-home-in-the-world #AmartyaSen #HomeInTheWorld #Tagore #Shantiniketan #India #TrinityCollege

"What we are looking at [in Asian economies in the 1990s] is not so much the social consequences of economic reforms, but the economic consequences of social reforms. The market economy flourishes on the foundations of such social development. As India has been lately recognizing, lack of social development can quite severely hold up the reach of economic development."
- #AmartyaSen, 'Development as Freedom'

"A tendency to concentrate on food production only, neglecting food *entitlement*, can be deeply counterproductive. Policy makers may be misled if insulated from the real situation of hunger - and even threats of famines - by favourable food output situations."
- #AmartyaSen, 'Development as Freedom

@wuhei @wolftune @aral
ignoring "human nature" arguments (based on debunked assumptions about #HomoEconomicus, read 'Development as Freedom' by #AmartyaSen)

> The trick IMO is to build an esoteric, parallel layer where to experiment in peace, fix problems and then ship "releases" to the IRL world

Did that. It's called the internet. Didn't work out exactly as we hoped ;) Turns out you can't get outside the (social) world, and solutions have to be beta tested somewhere within it.