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Follow Amartya Sen— it's freeএই episode-এ আমরা Amartya Sen-এর Development as Freedom বই থেকে বুঝতে চেষ্টা করি বাজার, রাষ্ট্র, এবং গণতন্ত্রের আসল কাজটা কী, এবং কেন “GDP বাড়লেই উন্নয়ন” গল্পটা অসম্পূর্ণ। প্রথমেই আসে market freedom. বাজারে কেনা-বেচার স্বাধীনতা মানুষের শ্রম বিক্রি করা, কাজ পাওয়া, এবং আয় করার সুযোগ তৈরি করে। কিন্তু Sen দেখান, market efficiency মানেই justice না। বাজার অনেক কিছু ভালোভাবে চালালেও public goods, externalities, এবং সামাজিক সুরক্ষা একা বাজার দিতে পারে না। তাই বাজারকে দেবতা বানানোও ভুল, আবার রাষ্ট্রকে সবকিছুর মালিক বানানোও ভুল। দরকার blended framework: market + state + social opportunities। এরপর আমরা কথা বলি সরকার কীভাবে গরিবকে সাহায্য করতে পারে “ব্যাংক ভাঙা” ছাড়াই। এখানে Sen inflation নিয়েও সতর্ক করেন: উচ্চ inflation “dynamic instability” তৈরি করে, কিন্তু “zero inflation” obsession দিয়ে বাস্তব মানুষের প্রয়োজনকে sacrifice করা আরও বড় ভুল। তারপর আসে targeting বনাম capability. Means-testing করে “শুধু গরিবকে টাকা” দিতে গেলে তিনটা সমস্যা হয়: information distortion (মানুষ আয় লুকায়) incentive distortion (যোগ্য হতে কাজ বন্ধ করে) stigma (সামাজিক লজ্জা/তাচ্ছিল্য) তাই Sen-এর প্রস্তাব: টাকা নয়, capability target করা। শিক্ষা, স্বাস্থ্য, নিরাপদ পানি, প্রতিবন্ধীদের সহায়তা, social safety net এগুলো self-targeting, distortion কম, আর dignity বজায় রাখে। শেষ ও সবচেয়ে শক্তিশালী অংশ: famine. এই episode-এ আমরা দেখাই দুর্ভিক্ষ প্রায় কখনোই “খাবার নেই” বলে হয় না; হয় entitlement ভেঙে গেলে। খাদ্য বাজারে আছে, কিন্তু মানুষের কেনার ক্ষমতা নেই, কাজ নেই, আয় নেই। Bengal famine, Ireland, Stalin-era Ukraine, Mao-era China, Cambodia—এই উদাহরণগুলো দেখায়, authoritarian ব্যবস্থা, free press না থাকা, এবং accountability না থাকার কারণে famine ভয়াবহ হয়। Sen-এর famous claim এখানেই: functioning democracy এবং free press থাকলে famine প্রতিরোধ করা সম্ভব, কারণ এটা early warning system তৈরি করে এবং সরকারকে কাজ করতে বাধ্য করে। In this episode on Development as Freedom, we explore Amartya Sen’s argument that development is not just GDP growth but the expansion of real freedoms. We discuss why market freedom matters, yet market efficiency is not the same as justice. Markets alone cannot provide crucial public goods, handle externalities, or ensure social protection, which is why Sen argues for a blended framework: market mechanisms alongside an active state and strong social opportunities. We also unpack Sen’s critique of strict means-testing (“targeting the poor”) due to information distortion, incentive distortion, and stigma. Instead, he advocates targeting capabilities through education, healthcare, clean water, disability support, and safety nets. Finally, we dive into Sen’s entitlement approach to famine: famine is rarely caused by food shortage; it happens when people lose the economic power and access to food. With democracy, accountability, and a free press as an early warning system, famine prevention becomes possible. Key takeaways Market freedom creates opportunity, but efficiency ≠ justice Public goods and externalities need state action Anti-inflationary radicalism can sacrifice real human needs Means-testing creates distortion + stigma Capability-based support preserves dignity and works better Famine is an entitlement failure, not a food shortage Democracy + free press work like an early warning system Tags / Keywords Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, Capability approach, Entitlement approach, Famine prevention, Democracy and free press, Market vs state, Public goods, Externalities, Means testing, Targeting, Social safety net, Inflation, Political freedom
উন্নয়ন কি শুধু GDP, GNP আর income বাড়ানো? নাকি উন্নয়ন মানে মানুষের Freedom? এই episode-এ আমরা শুরু করি Amartya Sen-এর কঠিন কিন্তু mind-opening বই Development as Freedom দিয়ে। আমরা আলোচনা করি কেন wealth হলো development-এর means, goal নয়। Sen দেখান উন্নয়নকে বুঝতে হলে দেখতে হবে মানুষ কতটা freedom পাচ্ছে, আর কোথায় কোথায় unfreedom কাজ করছে। আমরা ভেঙে দেখি development-এর দুইটা বড় ভূমিকা: evaluative (কেমন দেশ উন্নত তা বিচার) এবং effectiveness (freedom থাকলে মানুষ নিজেই উন্নয়নের agent হয়)। এরপর আসে Sen-এর famous idea: poverty মানে শুধু টাকার অভাব না, poverty মানে capability deprivation। এই episode-এ আরও আসে বড় প্রশ্ন: authoritarianism কি দ্রুত উন্নয়ন আনে? Sen যুক্তি দেন press freedom এবং democracy থাকলে famine হওয়ার সুযোগ কমে যায়। India এবং China-এর তুলনা দিয়ে আলোচনা করি কীভাবে freedom, education, health এবং policy একসাথে কাজ করে। এখানে আমরা 5টি instrumental freedoms নিয়ে কথা বলি: political freedom, social opportunities, economic facilities, transparency guarantees, protective security। আর বুঝি কেন freedom কে “luxury” বলা ভুল। Episode শেষে আমরা tease করি next episode-এর topic: missing women এবং এই বইয়ের ground-breaking ধারণাগুলো। ————— Is development only about GDP, GNP, and higher income, or is development ultimately about freedom? In this episode, we begin Amartya Sen’s challenging but deeply illuminating book Development as Freedom. We explore why wealth is a means of development, not development itself. Sen argues that true development is the expansion of human freedom and the removal of unfreedoms such as poverty, tyranny, lack of social opportunities, and absence of transparency. We discuss Sen’s two key roles of freedom: as an evaluative lens for judging development, and as an effectiveness tool because people become active agents when they have real freedom. A core shift follows: poverty is not merely low income, but capability deprivation. We also examine the controversial question of authoritarian growth. Sen’s argument connects democracy and press freedom to famine prevention, and we discuss India and China through that lens. Finally, we break down Sen’s five instrumental freedoms: political freedom, social opportunities, economic facilities, transparency guarantees, and protective security. We end with a teaser for the next episode on the “missing women” discussion. Key Words: Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, Capability Approach, Freedom and development, Instrumental freedoms, Poverty as capability deprivation, Democracy and famine, Press freedom, Social opportunities, Transparency guarantees, Protective security, Political freedom, Inequality and justice, গরিবি মানে capability deprivation, #BetweenLinesAndLands Bengali: আপনার মতে উন্নয়ন মানে কী: income বাড়া নাকি Freedom বাড়া? Comment করে জানান, আর next episode-এর missing women আলোচনা মিস করবেন না। English: What is development to you: higher income or greater freedom? Share your thoughts in the comments, and don’t miss the next episode on “missing women.” Connect With us: 🌐 www.betweenlinesandlands.com 📺 YouTube: @BetweenLinesAndLands_podcast 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/BetweenLinesAndLands 📸 Instagram: @BetweenLinesAndLands_podcast 🎵 TikTok: @BetweenLinesAndLands 🎙️ Podcast: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Audible
From math, Sanskrit, and epistemology, to freedom, justice, and democracy—Gita Wirjawan in conversation with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.English subtitles available. #Endgame #GitaWirjawan #AmartyaSen -----------------Nobelist Amartya Sen reads "What It Takes: Southeast Asia". You should too!BUY NOW: https://sgpp.me/what-it-takes-yt or get it at Periplus: https://sgpp.me/what-it-takes-periplus ----------------- About the Guest: Professor Amartya Sen is a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, “for his contributions to welfare economics.” About the Host: Gita Wirjawan is an Indonesian entrepreneur and educator. He is the founding partner of Ikhlas Capital and the chairman of Ancora Group. Currently, he is teaching at Stanford as a visiting scholar with Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy.-----------------Other Endgame episodes that you might like: https://youtu.be/_A6x_21ojD0?si=a7YIa... https://youtu.be/VHJwO13EqWE?si=ZURD6... https://youtu.be/Pg4w-rwTCXE?si=JyEc2... ------------------
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In dieser KrimShort spricht Marie über den Befähigungsansatz (Capability-Ansatz) von dem Ökonom und Philosoph Amartya Sen, den er teilweise in Zusammenarbeit mit der Philosophin Martha Nussbaum und anderen Kolleg:innen erarbeitet und weiterentwickelt hat. Dieser Denkansatz fordert, bei der Evaluation von Reichtum und Armut über die meistens verwendeten Standardkennzahlen, wie Einkommen, BIP oder BNE, hinaus zu blicken. Sen argumentiert, dass lieber die tatsächlichen Verwirklichungschancen eines Menschen gemessen werden sollten, da diese aussagekräftiger als die Standardkennzahlen seien. Neben einem tieferen Verständnis für Armut/Reichtum weist dieser Ansatz sogar Ähnlichkeiten zu einer bestimmten kriminologischen Theorie auf. Zu welcher, das hört ihr in der Folge! Shownotes Deutschlandfunk (2018): Amartya Sen – „Die Idee der Gerechtigkeit“. Artikel von Martina Wehlte vom 26.02.2018. URL: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/amartya-sen-die-idee-der-gerechtigkeit-100.html (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Eurostat (2021): Improving the understanding of poverty and social exclusion in Europe — 2021 edition. URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-statistical-working-papers/-/ks-02-21-459 (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2020): Friedenspreis 2020. Amartya Sen. URL: https://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/alle-preistraeger-seit-1950/2020-2029/amartya-sen (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Hans Böckler Stiftung, Otto Brenner Stiftung (2014): Was macht ein gutes Leben aus? Der Capability Approach im Fortschrittsforum. URL: https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/wiso/10750.pdf (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Harvard University (2024): Amartya Sen. Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy. URL: https://scholar.harvard.edu/sen/biocv (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (2003): Schlussbericht an das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung Operationalisierung der Armuts- und Reichtumsmessung. URL: https://www.armuts-und-reichtumsbericht.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Berichte/erster-armuts-reichtumsbericht-publikation-operationalisierung-armuts-reichtumsmessung.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2 (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Sen, Amartya (2010): Die Idee der Gerechtigkeit. München: C.H.Beck. Sen, Amartya (2010): Die Identitätsfalle. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. Simonow, Joanna (2008): Die bengalische Hungersnot von 1943: Ansätze zur Ursachenklärung. URL: https://fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/205/ (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Zollportal Europa (2019): https://www.zolltarifnummern.de/info/abkuerzungen/5105 (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024). Eine Zusammenfassung von Martha Nussbaum’s persönlicher Weiterentwicklung des Capability-Ansatzes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfFUBUFyNBM&t=685s (letzter Zugriff: 12.08.2024).
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Neste episódio, à luz do livro “As teorias da justiça depois de Rawls: Um breve manual de filosofia política” de Roberto Gargarella, faço um análise comparativa entre os pensamentos de John Rawls e Amartya Sen. A exposição acaba por abordar várias ideias centrais de Sem e Rawls. Nos acompanhe também nos demais canais para outras dicas diárias de Humanística: - Ig: @proffilippeaugusto - Telegram: https://t.me/humanistica - Ig do Curso: @ousesaber Indicações culturais: - PODCAST: * Episódio #28 do Podcast Onze Supremos: " A Teoria da Justiça em Amartya Sen (com Fabrício Pontin)". Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Uv6K9P5Ag9R2m0icsKPBD?si=-CTWYjWfSM2QLg94ZfallA&dd=1 - LIVROS: * Uma Teoria da Justiça (John Rawls) * Uma Ideia de Justiça (Amartya Sen) * As teorias da justiça depois de Rawls: Um breve manual de filosofia política (Roberto Gargarella)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home in the World: A Memoir Author: Amartya Sen Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing conversations in the famous Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading figures of the day. This is a book of ideas - especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow - as much as of people and places. In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes 'the rivers of Bengal' along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The historic culture of Bengal is wonderfully explored, as is the political inflaming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the resistance to it. In 1943, Sen witnessed the Bengal famine and its disastrous development. Some of Sen's family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule: not surprisingly, the relationship between Britain and India is another main theme of the book. Forty-five years after he first arrived at 'the Gates of Trinity', one of Britain's greatest intellectual foundations, Sen became its Master. © Amartya Sen 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home in the World: A Memoir Author: Amartya Sen Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing conversations in the famous Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading figures of the day. This is a book of ideas - especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow - as much as of people and places. In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes 'the rivers of Bengal' along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The historic culture of Bengal is wonderfully explored, as is the political inflaming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the resistance to it. In 1943, Sen witnessed the Bengal famine and its disastrous development. Some of Sen's family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule: not surprisingly, the relationship between Britain and India is another main theme of the book. Forty-five years after he first arrived at 'the Gates of Trinity', one of Britain's greatest intellectual foundations, Sen became its Master. © Amartya Sen 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home in the World: A Memoir Author: Amartya Sen Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” from Dhaka in modern Bangladesh to Trinity College, Cambridge. In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first century life. Interweaving scenes from his youth with candid reflections on wealth, welfare, and social justice, Sen shows how his life experiences—in Asia, Europe, and later America—vitally informed his work, culminating in the ultimate “portrait of a citizen of the world” (Philip Hensher, Spectator).“Sen is more than an economist, moral philosopher or even an academic. He is a life-long campaigner … for a more noble idea of home.”—Edward Luce, Financial Times (UK)
The Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen joins the Prospect Interview to discuss economics, globalisation and identity in his new memoir Home in the World . Editor Tom Clark talks to Amartya about watching famous historians Hugh Trevor-Roper and Eric Hobsbawm go head to head at Cambridge, the turmoil in Narendra Modi’s India, and the future of neoliberalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Estamos de volta com nosso primeiro episódio de 2021! A conversa dessa vez foi com Fabrício Pontin sobre a Teoria da Justiça em Amartya Sen. Sen, vencedor do Nobel de Economia, traz uma proposta diferente de abordagem do desenvolvimento que parte da ideia de expansão das capacidades individuais de cada membro da sociedade. Índice 00:00 Vinheta 01:00 Apresentação do convidado 04:15 Teoria das preferências 09:13 A liberdade em Amartya Sen 27:17 A crítica ao utilitarismo de Bentham 51:37 A crítica ao libertarianismo de Nozick 01:08:38 A crítica à justiça rawlsiana 01:27:11 Considerações finais 01:28:41 Referências e indicações Referências e indicações: 1. Os pecados secretos da economia (Deirdre McCloskey) 2. Can society be commodities all the way down? Post-Polanyian reflections on capitalist crisis (Nancy Fraser) 3. In the Shadow of Justice (Katrina Forrester) 4. Economia do bem comum (Jean Tirole) 5. Sem fins lucrativos (Martha C. Nussbaum) 6. O Brasil dobrou à direita (Jairo Nicolau) 7. Na Casa De Meu Pai (Kwame Anthony Appiah) 8. Ensaio Digital (Canal Youtube) Para nos apoiar: https://apoia.se/onzesupremos Imagem Asia Society - https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/qa-nobel-prize-winning-economist-amartya-sen-reviving-nalanda-university Vinheta Lovely Swindler by Amarià https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lovely-swindler Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/2SzHYf7qia8