Professor Amartya Sen is the Nobel prize-winning economist from India who teaches at Harvard and travels on lecture tour. Curiously, writer William Butler Yeats had championed the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore to Western audiences, and Tagore would later found the school which Sen attended and gave him the name Amartya, or “immortal”. The economist's influence on practical arrangements has been profound in certain quarters and he is fearless in toppling the sacred cows of capital that do not serve people.
He spoke 'On Global Confusion' at Trinity College Dublin last Thursday 9 July, and the talk can be heard at this link:
The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » Amartya Sen in Dublin
The following article is a nice overview of his relevance -
Beacon of light in a dismal science - The Irish Times - Sat, Jul 11, 2009
Goto Theory Talks for some other high-profile talks.
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