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“... of dealing with this evidence, Cuno tries to justify his position by quoting Edward Said and Amartya Sen on the complex nature of national identity. Cuno discusses two countries, Turkey and China, in chapters combining genuinely interesting information with self-indulgent asides. It’s puzzling that he doesn’t mention recent cases in which the ...”

“... malnutrition and stunting. In An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions, Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen consider the plight of hundreds of millions of Indians who still live in poverty, often as a consequence of class, caste and gender inequality, without ready access to education, credit or any sort of social safety net.3 One of the questions ...”

“... as an ideal may well have the strengths, such as public reason, memorably ascribed to it by Amartya Sen in The Idea of Justice (2009), but as Sen recognises, considerably more is needed to make it flameproof. It would be naive to ignore the vulnerability of an organic constitution such as the UK’s to capture or ...”

“... Wayne Booth; among philosophers, Bernard Williams and Stanley Cavell; among social scientists, Amartya Sen. Nussbaum explains her discovery of virtues eloquently, volubly, in the manner of a belated Victorian moralist. The reverse of a dry writer, she is fairly often deeply moved, and you come to know not only what she felt but how and when the ...”

“... the other, which is why, as they did in Argentina, tyrants try to stop it. Alessandro Pizzorno and Amartya Sen extend the idea and its connection to individual and collective identities.) But for the unheroic, as Hirschman adds, there are dangers in too much public passion. Ten years ago, in a book on The Passions and the Interests, on the ‘political ...”

“... were killed. Others hoped it meant voters did value India’s open society after all, what Amartya Sen has called the ‘broad idea of a large India proud of its heterodox past and its pluralist present’, rather than ‘a small India, bundled around a drastically downsized version of Hinduism’. With developments in India and the US in ...”

“... its own people,’ said President Muluzi. ‘That’s thuggery.’ In Poverty and Famine (1981), Amartya Sen argues that because democratically elected governments are held accountable by a free press and the threat of elections, they do not allow their people to starve (though they may allow them to go hungry). The scandal of mass starvation is ...”

“... threat of deportation, or not being registered at all, which meant internment in a refugee camp. Amartya Sen has called the situation in Rakhine a ‘slow genocide’, while the Early Warning Project named Myanmar as the state where genocide was most likely to take place. The tensions in Rakhine, as well as civil war in northern Kachin and the eastern ...”

“... as in the presently popular models of ‘rational choice’ (models of rational foolishness, as Amartya Sen has described them), or reflected on in the course of practical reasoning, they are, most will insist, the ends of individuals. It’s only individuals that can have intentions. Most philosophers, Searle concedes, have thought ‘that anybody who ...”

“... nationalists have transformed the Mughals into an object of hatred, many others – including Amartya Sen – view their empire as a near utopian political arrangement. Empire here stands for diversity, tolerance and difference, as distinct from the nation-state with its inherent drive towards homogeneity. On the other hand, to many ...”

“... which acknowledges that humans are not only or not always self-interested utility-maximisers (Amartya Sen described homo economicus as a ‘rational fool’), but social, moral and emotional animals too; studies of economic ‘irrationality’ now proliferate. Experts and the market are no longer seen to be alternatives as collectors of data. We are ...”

“... of equality. Following themes presented in seminars he taught jointly at Oxford with the economist Amartya Sen, Dworkin insisted that we should focus our attention on the question, ‘Equality of what?’ What (exactly) should an egalitarian try to equalise – or, more realistically, which inequalities should he try to mitigate? A society might aim to ...”

“... to me below par, because Elster tries to do too much in it. It was originally written to appear in Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams’s book on Utilitarianism, and in accordance with this, its accounced object is to argue that the phenomenon of adaptive preferences discredits Utilitarianism as a moral theory. But this means that there are really two ...”

“... the contestable and the contingent’ in their search for a ‘beautiful, timeless precision’. Amartya Sen is another, if only for his insistence that the best guarantee of democracy is a long, continuous process of ‘public reasoning’ that Marquand can’t find anywhere right now. The opposition is thinner on the ground but formidable. Hayek is ...”

“... preferred alternatives include Santa Fe Institute complexity and chaos theory, the economics of Amartya Sen and Brian Arthur’s ‘path-dependency’, social-science-as-if-people-mattered, holistic biology and an implausibly rosy picture of contemporary bioethics and its role in American clinical medicine. Fair enough, even if Toulmin oscillates ...”