January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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Foreword to “Human Development: Concepts and Measure,” edited by S. Fukuda-Parr and 

A.K.Shiv Kumar, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 

 

 

Foreword to “ Winning the War Against Humiliation, Report of Independent Commission 

on Africa and Challenges of Third Millennium,” edited by Albert Tevoedjre (2002). 

 

 

“Globalization, Inequality and Global Protest,” Development, 45 (June 2002). 

 

 

“Development as Capability Expansion,” in Readings in Human Development, S. Fukuda-Parr 

et al., eds. (New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). 

 

 

 

“What’s the Point of Democracy?” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Spring 

2004, Vol. 42, No. 3. 

 

 

“Freedom as Progress,” Finance & Development, September 2004. 

 

 

“The Three R’s of Reform,” Economic and Political Weekly (May 7, 2005). 

 

 

 

“How Does Development Happen?” Cato Journal, 25 (2005) 

 

 

“The Man Without a Plan,” Foreign Affairs, 85 (2006). 

 

"The Mobile and the World."  Information Technologies and International Development 6.SE 2010 

(2010): 1-3.  . 

 

 

 

 

(XI) 

PROJECT EVALUATION AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS 

 

 

 

“On the Usefulness of Used Machines,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 44 (August, 1962). 

 

 

“On Taxing Directly,” Rivista Di Diritto Finanziaro e Scienza Delle Finanze, Year 21, No. 3,  

 

 

Part 1 (September 1962). 

 

 

 

“Isolation, Assurance and the Social Rate of Discount,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 81 

(February 1967).  Reprinted in R. Layard, ed., Cost Benefit Analysis, Penguin Modern 

Economics Readings (1974). 

 

 

 

“General Criteria of Industrial Project Evaluation,” in United Nations Industrial 

Development Organization, Evaluation of Industrial Projects (New York, 1968). 

 

 

 

“The Role of Policy-Makers in Project Formulation and Evaluation,” Industrialization and 

Productivity, Bulletin 13, United Nations, New York, 1969. 

 

 

 

“Choice of Techniques: A Critical Survey of Class of Debates,” in Planning for Advanced 

Skills and Technologies, Industrial Planning and Programming Series No. 3, United 

Nations, New York, (1969). 

 

 

 

“Control Areas and Accounting Prices: An Approach to Economic Evaluation,” Economic 

Journal, 82, 1972.  Reprinted in R. Layard, ed., Cost-Benefit Analysis, Penguin Modern 

Economics Readings, (1974). 

 

 

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“Approaches to the Choice of Discount Rates for Social Cost Benefit Analysis,” in R. Lind, 

ed., Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy (Washington, DC.: Resources for the 

Future, 1982). 

 

 

“Quality of Life and Economic Evaluation,” Academia Economic Papers, 25 (September 1997). 

 

 

 

“The Discipline of Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Journal of Legal Studies, 29 (June 2000). 

 

 

 

 

(XII)   EDUCATION AND MANPOWER PLANNING 

 

 

 

“Education, Vintage and Learning by Doing,” Journal of Human Resources, 1 (Fall 1966). 

 

 

“A Planning Model for the Educational Requirements of Economic Development: 

Comments,” O.E.C.D. Study Group in the Economics of Education, Residual Factor 

and Economic Growth Paris, 1964.  Reprinted in M. Blaug, ed., Economics of Education 

2, Penguin Modern Economics Readings (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1969) 

 

 

 

“Economic Approaches to Education and Manpower Planning,” Indian Economic Review, 

New Series, I (April 1966).  Reprinted in M. Blaug, ed., Economics of Education 2, Penguin 

Modern Economics Readings (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1969). 

 

 

 

“Models of Educational Planning and their Applications,” Journal of Development Planning, 2 

(1970). 

 

 

 

“A Quantitative Study of Brain Drain from the Developing Countries to the United States,” 

Journal of Development Planning, 3 (197l). 

 

 

“Aspects of Indian Education,” Text of Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture 1970, in P. 

Chaudhuri, ed., Aspects of Indian Economic Development (Allen and Unwin, London 1972); 

reprinted in C. Malik, ed., Management and Organization of Indian Universities  (Indian 

Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, 197l). 

 

 

“Primary Education in Rural India; Participation and Wastage,” Agricultural Economics 

Research Centre, University of Delhi (Mumbai – New Delhi: Tata McGraw Publishing, 

1971) 

 

 

 

“Brain Drain: Causes and Effects,” in B.R. Williams, ed., Science and Technology in Economic 

Growth (London: Macmillan, 1973). 

 

 

 

“Basic Education as a Political Issue,” Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 9 

(January 1995).  Jointly with Jean Drèze. 

 

 

“Education in Kerala’s Development: Towards a New Agenda”, Delhi, Institute of Social 

Sciences (2000). 

 

 

 

 

(XIII)   LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT 

 

 

 

“Unemployment, Relative Prices and the Savings Potential,” Indian Economic Review, August 

1957. 

 

 

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