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Home in the World
*Home in the World: A Memoir* (2021-07-31)

You can pre-order here , I got my copy from the UK .

Collective Choice and Social Welfare
What I’ve been reading (2017-05-15)

There is a new, expanded edition of Amartya Sen’s Collective Choice and Social Welfare , still the best place to go for his views on normative economics.

The idea of justice
What I’ve been reading (2009-08-30)

1. The Idea of Justice , by Amartya Sen.  This book is 415 pages of intelligent Sen-isms.  Key themes are the importance of public reasoning, the plurality of reasons, and the possibility of an impartial approach to major ethical questions.  We also learn that in 1938 Wittgenstein was determined to go to Vienna and give Hitler a stern lecture; he had to be talked out of it.  At the end of it all I was more rather than less confused about what impartiality means.  I don't blame that on Sen, but t...

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