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Amartya Sen / NEC Presidential Lecture Series
Sen's Talk, The Argumentative Indian, Based on Forthcoming Book About Argumentative Tradition in Indian Intellectual History.
Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University will open New England Conservatory's 2004-05 Presidential Lecture Series, October 20. Created by President Daniel Steiner to enrich the lives of NEC faculty and students through exposure to scholars and thinkers in many disciplines, the lectures are free and open to the public. They all take place at 4:30 p.m. in NEC's Williams Hall.
The world's leading expert on welfare economics and a prominent Social Choice theorist, Professor Sen is a native of Bangladesh and studied at Calcutta University and Trinity College of Cambridge University. He has taught at Jadavpur University, the Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and his alma mater, Trinity College. Last January, he returned to Harvard after serving six years as Master of Trinity, the school's top post, and for which he was nominated by the British prime minister and appointed by the Queen.
Professor Sen had previously taught at Harvard from 1987-98. A prolific writer, he is the author of 25 books and more than 250 journal articles including Collective Choice and Social Welfare, Poverty and Famines, Commodities and Capabilities, On Ethics and Economics, and Inequality Reexamined.
Professor Sen is much admired not only for his economic theories but for his insistence on connecting economics with ethical considerations. As Richard Cooper, a Harvard colleague wrote in his review of Sen's book Development as Freedom, "Most economists these days eschew moral philosophy -- namely, the consideration of social justice -- because they consider it too 'soft' for rigorous analytical treatment. But Amartya Sen harks back to the older and richer tradition of evaluating the considerations of economic efficiency -- which dominate most modern economic analyses -- with respect to their general social consequences. Such judgments require an ethical framework." In his lecture, Professor Sen will analyze the long argumentative tradition in Indian intellectual history, and the continuing relevance of that tradition. He will examine issues of democracy, pluralism, secularism, and political conceptions of India.
Date: 10/20/2004
Location: Williams Hall, NEC, Boston
Time: 4:30 pm
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