January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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“Famines as Failures of Exchange Entitlements,” Economic and Political Weekly, Special 

Number, 11 (1976). 

 

 

 

“On the Approach to Planning Against Hunger,” Ceres: FAO Review on Agriculture and 

Development 58 (July-August 1977).  

 

 

 

“Starvation and Exchange Entitlements: A General Approach and Its Application to the 

Great Bengal Famine,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, l (March 1977). 

 

 

 

“Famines,” World Development, 8(1980). 

 

 

 

“Famine Mortality: A Study of the Bengal Famine of 1943,” in E. J. Hobsbawm et.al., 

Peasants in History (London: Oxford University Press, 1980). 

 

 

 

“Ingredients of Famine Analysis: Availability and Entitlements,” Quarterly Journal of  

 

 

Economics, 95 (August 1981). 

 

 

“Food Problem: Theory and Policy,” Third World Quarterly (June 1982). 

 

 

 

“Food Battles: Conflicts in the Access to Food,” Food and Nutrition, l0 (1984). 

 

 

 

“The Causes of Famine: A Reply,” Food Policy, 11 (May 1986). 

 

 

 

“Food, Economics and Entitlements,” Lloyd Bank Review, 160 (1986). 

 

 

 

“Famine and Fraternity,” London Review of Books (July 3, 1986). 

 

 

 

 

 

“Africa and India: What Do We Have to Learn from Each Other?” in K. J. Arrow, ed., 

Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of the International Economic Association, 1 (London: 

Macmillan, 1986). 

  

 

“Reply: Famine and Mr. Bowbrick,” Food Policy, 12 (February 1987). 

 

 

 

Hunger and Entitlement (Helsinki: World Institute of Development Economics Research, 

1987). 

 

 

 

Food and Freedom, text of Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture, Washington, DC, 1987; 

reprinted in World Development, 17 (1989). 

 

 

 

“Food Entitlement and Economic Chains,” in L.F. Newman, ed., Hunger in History 

(Blackwell, 1990). 

 

 

“Entitlements and the Chinese Famine,” Food Policy, 15 (June 1990). 

 

 

 

“Public Action to Remedy Hunger” (New York: The Hunger Project, 1990); republished in 

International Science Reviews, 16 (1991). 

 

 

 

“The Causation and Prevention of Famines: A Reply,” Journal of Peasant Studies (1993). 

 

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January 2013 

  16 

 

“Population and Reasoned Agency: Food, Fertility and Economic Development,” in K. 

Lindahl-Kiessling and H. Landberg, eds., Population, Economic Development, and the 

Environment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). 

 

 

 

“The Political Economy of Hunger: On Reasoning and Participation,” address to the 

Global Hunger Conference of the World Bank, 1993, Proceedings; shorter version 

published in Common Knowledge (1994). 

 

 

 

“Nobody Need Starve,” Granta, 52 (Winter 1995). 

 

 

 

“Famine as Alienation,” in Abu Abdullah and A. R. Khan, eds., State, Market and 

Development: Essays in Honour of Rehman Sobhan (Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 

1996); shorter version published in Culturefront 5 (Summer 1996). 

 

 

 

“Economic Interdependence and the World Food Summit,” Development, 4 (1996). 

 

 

 

“Foreword,” in Nikhil Sarkar, A Matter of Conscience: Artists Bear Witness to the Great Bengal 

Famine of 1943 (Calcutta: Punascha, 1998). 

 

 

“Apocalypse Then,” The New York Times (February 18, 2001). 

 

 

“Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders,” The Little Magazine, 2 (year end 2001). 

 

 

 

 

(VIII)   GENDER, FAMILY AND FEMINIST ECONOMICS 

 

 

 

“Indian Women: Well-being and Survival,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 7 (1983).  Jointly 

with J. Kynch. 

 

 

 

“Economics and the Family,” Asian Development Review, l (1983). 

 

 

 

“Malnutrition of Rural Children and the Sex Bias,” Economic and Political Weekly, Annual 

Number, 18 (1983).  Jointly with S. Sengupta. 

 

 

 

“Women, Technology and Sexual Divisions,” Trade and Development, United Nations, New 

York, 6 (1985). 

 

 

 

“Family and Food: Sex-Bias in Poverty,” in P. Bardhan and T.N. Srinivasan, eds., Rural 

Poverty in South Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988). 

 

 

“Co-operation, Inequality and the Family,” in G. McNicoll and M. Cain, eds. Rural 

Development and Population: Institutions and Policy, a supplement to Population and 

Development Review, 15 (1989). 

 

 

 

“Gender and Cooperative Conflicts,” in Irene Tinker, ed., Persistent Inequalities (New York: 

Oxford University Press, 1990). 

 

 

“More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing,” The New York Review of Books (December 20, 

1990). 

 

 

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