January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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“Surplus Labour and the Degree of Mechanization,” in K. Berrill, ed., Economic Development 

with Special Reference to East Asia (London: Macmillan, 1964). 

 

 

 

Dimensions of Unemployment in India, Convocation Address (Calcutta: Indian Statistical 

Institute, 1973). 

 

 

 

“Employment, Institutions and Technology,” International Labour Review, 112 (July 1965). 

 

 

 

“Labour and Technology,” in J. Cody, H. Hughes and D. Walls, eds.Policies for Industrial 

Progress in Developing Countries (New York: Oxford University Press 1980). 

 

 

 

“Inequality, Unemployment and Contemporary Europe,” International Labour Review, 136 

(1997). 

 

 

 

“Work and Rights,” Keynote Address at the International Labour Conference in Geneva, 

June 15, 1999; International Labour Review 139, 2 (2000) and M. Fetherolf, ed., Women, 

Gender and Work: What Is Equality and How Do We Get There? (Geneva: ILO, 2001). 

 

 

 

 

(XIV)   THE INDIAN ECONOMY 

 

 

 

“An Aspect of Indian Agriculture,” Economic Weekly, Annual Number 14 (1962). 

 

 

 

“Working Capital in the Indian Economy,” in P. N.Rosenstein-Rodan, ed., Pricing and Fiscal 

Policies (London: Allen and Unwin 1964). 

 

 

 

“Size of Holdings and Productivity,” Economic Weekly, Annual Number 16 (1964). 

 

 

 

“The Commodity Pattern of British Enterprise in Early Indian Industrialization 1854-

1914,” in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Economic History (Paris, 

1965). 

 

 

 

“The Pattern of British Enterprise in India 1854-1914: A Causal Analysis,” in B. Singh and 

V. B. Singh, eds., Social and Economic Change (Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1967). 

 

 

 

“Surplus Labour in India: A Critique of Schultz’s Statistical Test,” Economic Journal, 77 

(March 1967). 

 

 

 

“Durgapur Fertilizer Project: An Economic Evaluation,” Indian Economic Review, 5 (April 

1970).  Jointly with M. Datta Chaudhuri. 

 

 

 

“Poverty and Economic Development,” Poverty, published text of Vikram Sarabhai 

Memorial Lecture (Ahmedabad, 1976). 

 

 

“Farm Size and Labour Use: Analysis and Policy,” Economic and Political Weekly,  1/8 

(February 1980).  Jointly  with A.. Rudra. 

 

 

 

“How is India Doing?,” The New York Review of Books, 21 (Christmas Number, 1982); 

reprinted in D. K. Basu and R. Sisson, eds., Social and Economic Development in India: A 

Reassessment (New Delhi, London, Beverly Hills, Sage 1986). 

 

 

 

“Indian Development: Lessons and Non-Lessons,” Daedalus, 118 (1989). 

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“Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms,” in J. Drèze and A. Sen, eds. Indian Development: 

Selected Regional Perspectives (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(XV)   INDIAN SOCIETY, CULTURE AND POLITICS 

 

 

 

“Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions,” in M. Krausz, ed., Relativism: 

Interpretation and Confrontation (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988). 

Jointly with Martha Nussbaum. 

 

 

 

 

“The Threats to Secular India,” The New York Review of Books, 40 (April 8, 1993). 

 

 

 

“India and the West,” The New Republic, June 7, 1993. 

 

 

 

“Indian Pluralism,” India International Centre Quarterly (Monsoon 1993). 

 

 

 

“Our Culture, Their Culture,” (Calcutta: Nandan, 1996); republished in The New Republic, 

April 1, 1996. 

 

 

 

“Secularism and Its Discontents,” in Kaushik Basu and S. Subramahmyam, eds., Unravelling 

the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity (Penguin Books: 1996). 

 

 

“Foreword” to K. Dutta and A. Robinson, eds., Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore 

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 

 

 

 

“On Interpreting India’s Past,” in Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, eds., Nationalism, Democracy 

and Development (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996). 

 

 

 

“Indian Traditions and Western Imagination,” Daedalus, 126 (Spring 1997). 

 

 

“The Vision That Worked,” Times Literary Supplement, (August 1997). 

 

 

 

“Tagore and His India,” The New York Review of Books, 44 (June 26, 1997). 

 

 

 

“Culture and Identity,” Little India (August 1998). 

 

 

 

“India Through its Calendars,” The Little Magazine, 1 (May 2000). 

 

 

“India and the Bomb,” The New Republic (September 25, 2000); Frontline (September 19, 

2000); Italian translation: Internazionale 359, 7 (November 3, 2000). 

 

 

“History and the Enterprise of Knowledge,” Inaugural Address, Indian History Millennium 

Session, Calcutta University, January 2-4, 2001; published in The New Humanist, 

(Summer, 2001). 

 

 

“Passage to China,” The New York Review of Books (December 2, 2004). 

 

 

“Chili and Liberty,” The New Republic, (February 27, 2006). 

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