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Past Employment: 

 

 

Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, 

Harvard University, 1987-98 (Senior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1989-98) 

 

Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University, and Fellow of All Souls 

College, Oxford, 1980-88 

 

Professor of Economics, Oxford University, and Fellow of Nuffield College, 1977-80 

 

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London, 197l-77 

 

Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1963-7l 

 

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1957-63 

 

Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 1956-58 

 

Visiting Appointments: 

 

 

Andrew D. White Professor at Large, Cornell University, 1978-84 

 

Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 1968-69 

 

Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1964-65 

 

Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Summer Term, 196l 

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, M.I.T., 1960-6l 

 

Publications: 

 

BOOKS: 

 

 

Choice of Techniques, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1960, 1962, 1968; Delhi: Oxford University 

Press, 1962, 1968.  Spanish translation, Mexico City, 1969. 

 

 

Collective Choice and Social Welfare, San Francisco: Holden Day, 1970; Edinburgh: Oliver and 

Boyd, 197l; Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1979, 1984. Swedish translation: 

Bokforlaget Thales, 1988. 

 

 

Growth Economics, editor, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1960. 

 

 

Guidelines for Project Evaluation, UNIDO, United Nations, New York, 1972.  Jointly with P. 

Dasgupta and S. A. Marglin. 

 

 

On Economic Inequality, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973; New York:  Norton, 1975.  German 

translation: Campus, 1975; Japanese translation: 1977; Spanish translation: Editorial 

Critica, 1979; Yugoslav translation: Cekade, 1984.  Expanded edition with an annex 

"On Economic Inequality after a Quarter Century" [jointly with James Foster], 

Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 

 

 

Employment, Technology, and Development, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975; New York: Oxford 

University Press, 1975; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976. 

 

 

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 198l; 

New York: Oxford University Press, 198l; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 

1982. 

 

 

Utilitarianism and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982; New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 1982; Italian translation: Il Saggiatore, 1984.   

 

 

Jointly edited with Bernard Williams. 

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Choice, Welfare and Measurement, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard 

University Press, 1997; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983; Italian 

translation: Il Mulino, 1986; Japanese translation: Iwanami, 1988. 

 

 

Resources, Values and Development, Oxford: Basil Blackwell; 1984; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard 

University Press, 1984; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985; Italian 

translation: Bollati Boringhieri, 1992. 

 

 

Commodities and Capabilities, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985; New Delhi: Oxford 

University Press, 1987; Italian translation: Giuffre Editore, 1988; Japanese 

translation: Iwanami, 1988. 

 

 

The Standard of Living, Tanner Lectures with rejoinders by Bernard Williams and others, 

edited by G. Hawthorne, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; Italian 

translation: Marsilio, 1993. 

 

 

On Ethics and Economics, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987; New Delhi: Oxford 

University Press, 1990; Italian translation: Editori Laterza, 1988; Spanish translation, 

Alianza Editorial, 1987; French translation (with other selected essays), Presses 

Universitaires de France, 1993. 

 

 

Hunger and Public Action, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.  Jointly with Jean Drèze. 

 

 

The Political Economy of Hunger, in 3 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990 and 1991.  

Jointly edited with Jean Drèze. 

 

 

Inequality Reexamined, Oxford: Clarendon Press, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, and 

Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press, 1992; Italian translation: Il Mulino, 

1994; French translation: Seuil, 2000. 

 

 

The Quality of Life, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993; Italian translation, Feltrinelli, 1997.  

Jointly edited with Martha Nussbaum. 

 

 

India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.  Jointly 

with Jean Drèze. 

 

Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.  Jointly 

edited with Jean Drèze. 

 

 

La libertà individuale come impegno sociale, Rome & Bari: Editori Laterza, 1997. 

 

 

Laicismo Indiano, edited by Armando Massarenti, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1998. 

 

 

Development as Freedom, New York: Alfred Knopf, 1999; Worldwide publishers: Cappelen 

Forlag (Norwegian); Carl Hanser Verlag (German); China People’s University Press 

(Chinese); Companhia Das Letras (Portuguese, Brazil); Dost Publishers (Turkish); 

Editions Odile Jacob (French); Editorial Planeta (Spanish); Europa Publishers 

(Hungarian); Kastaniotis Editions (Greek); Mondadori Editore (Italian); Nihon 

Keizei Shimbun (Japanese); Oxford University Press (Hindi); Oxford University 

Press (English, UK); Prophet Press (Taiwanese); Sejong Publishers (Korean); 

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