January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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Utigeverij Contact (Dutch); Zysk I Ska Publishers (Polish) and Dudaj Publishing 

(Albanian). 

 

 

Rationality and Freedom, Harvard University Press, 2002 (Cambridge, MA and London, 

England). 

 

 

India:  Development and Participation, Oxford University Press, 2002 (New Delhi, India).  

Jointly with Jean Drèze. 

 

 

The Argumentative Indian, Penguin Books Ltd., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, US, 2005;  

 

 

Worldwide Publishers: Akashi Shoten (Japanese); Ananda Publishers Private, Ltd. 

(Bengali);  Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian);  Basam Books (Finnish); Chang 

Rim Publishing (Korean);  Editions Odile Jacob (French); Penguin Books India 

Private Ltd. (Malayalam); Raipal & Sons (Hindi); Shanghai Joking Publishing 

Company  (Shanghai). 

 

 

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, W.W. Norton, USA, Penguin Books UK, and 

India, 2006;  Worldwide publishers: Alexandria Publications (Greek); Alpha Books 

Co. (Vietnamese); Ananda Publishers (Bengali); Basam Books (Finnish); ByBooks 

(Korean); BZD Yayin ve Iletisim Hizmetleri (Turkish); China People’s Publishing 

House (Chinese); China Renmin (Chinese, simplified characters); Diadalos 

(Swedish); Edicione la Campana (Catalan); Edicoes Tinta-da-China (Portuguese); 

Editions Odile Jacob (French); Informations Forlag (Danish); Institute of Dialogue 

and Communication (Albanian); Katz Editors (Spanish); Keiso Shobo (Japanese); 

Editor Laterza (Italian); Mahidol University (Thai); Marijin Kiri (Indonesian); 

Masmedia (Croatian); Penguin India (Marathi); Raipal & Sons (Hindi); Verlag CH 

Beck (German); Xargol Books (Hebrew); Zahar (Portuguese in Brazil); Zalozba 

Sophia (Slovenian). 

 

 

The Idea of Justice, Harvard University Press, USA, Penguin Books, UK, 2009; Worldwide 

Publishers: Akashi Shoten (Japanese), Ananda Publishers Private Ltd. (Bengali), 

Arab Scientific Publishers (Arabic), Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian), C.H. Beck 

Verlag (German), China Renmin University Press (Chinese), Companhia das Letras 

(Portuguese, Brazil), Edicoes 70 Lda (Portuguese, Portugal), Flammarion (French), 

Random House Korea (Korean), Rajpal & Sons (Hindi). 

 

 

Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare: Volume II, jointly edited with Kenneth Arrow and 

Kotaro Suzumura, North-Holland, UK, 2011. 

 

 

Peace and Democratic Society, Open Book Publishers, UK, 2011 

 

ARTICLES: 

 

 

(I) 

SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY 

 

 

“Preferences, Votes and the Transitivity of Majority Decisions,” Review of Economic Studies, 3l 

(April 1964). 

 

 

 

“A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions,” Econometrica, 34 (1966). 

 

 

 

“Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority Decision,” Journal 

of Economic Theory, l (August 1969), jointly with P.K. Pattanaik. 

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“The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal,” Journal of Political Economy, 78 (1979). Reprinted in 

F. Hahn and M. Hollis, eds., Philosophy and Economic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University 

Press, 1979). 

 

 

 

“Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability,” Econometrica, 38 (May 1970); “A 

Correction,” Econometrica, 40 (September 1972). 

 

 

 

“The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal: A Reply,” Journal of Political Economy, 79 

(November/December 197l). 

 

 

 

“Liberty, Unanimity and Rights,” Economica, 43 (August 1976). 

 

 

 

“Social Choice Theory: A Re-Examination,” Econometrica, 45 (1977). 

 

 

 

“On Weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis,” 

Econometrica, 45 (October 1977). 

 

 

 

“Strategies and Revelation: Informational Constraints in Public Decisions,” in J. J. Laffont, 

ed., Aggregation and Revelation of Preferences (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1979). 

 

 

 

“Social Choice and Justice: A Review Article,” Journal of Economic Literature, 23 (December 

1985). [Review article on K.J. Arrow's Collected Papers: Social Choice and Justice]. 

 

 

 

“Foundations of Social Choice Theory: An Epilogue,” in J. Elster and A. Hylland, eds., 

Foundations of Social Choice Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) 

 

 

 

“Social Choice Theory,” in K.J. Arrow and M. Intriligator, eds., Handbook of Mathematical 

Economics, Vol. III (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986). 

 

 

“Social Choice,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (London: Macmillan, 1987). 

 

 

 

“Welfare, Freedom and Social Choice: A Reply,” Recherches Economiques de Louvain, 56 (1990). 

 

 

 

“Minimal Liberty,” Economica, 57 (1992). 

 

 

 

“How to Judge Voting Schemes,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9 (1995). 

 

 

 

“Rationality and Social Choice,” American Economic Review, 85 (1995). 

 

 

 

“Social Commitment and Financial Conservatism,” Il Mulino, 364 (March/April l996). 

 

 

 

“Social Commitment and Democracy: The Demands of Equity and Financial 

Conservatism,” (Eva Colorni Memorial volume) in Paul Barker, ed., Living as Equals  

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). 

 

 

 

“Rights: Formulation and Consequences,” Analyse and Kritik, 18 (1996). 

 

 

“Individual Preference as the Basis of Social Choice,” in Kenneth J. Arrow et al, eds., Social 

Choice Re-examined (London Macmillan, 1997). 

 

 

 

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