Amartya Sen, 1933-

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Amartya Sen, 1933-

• Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998

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• I. Who
• II. Welfare and developmental economics
• General focus on self-interest in economics what
  are the presumptions?
• III. This is his target
• IV. Experience tells us some things
• Bowl of fruit

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• V. Basic concepts
• Sympathy
• Commitment
• VI. Is this relevant to a vision of the self?
• Not in terms of purchase of goods usually
• What about public versus private goods?

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• VII. Social morons
• Ethical v. subjective
• Ranking of rankings
• Implications of economic view of rationality
• Consequences of committment

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• VIII. What has Sen accomplished?
• Rationality
• Multiple self
• Universal v. particular?
• Not all other-regarding motives are good