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2009 2010International Scholarships (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
*About the LKY School * The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is a graduate school of the National University of Singapore consistently ranked amongst the top 30 universities in the world by QS World University Rankings 2008. The School aims to educate, train and generate ideas amongst a new generation of globally minded policymakers and leaders from the public and private sectors. Our students...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
LONDON: A philosophy student of Indian origin, Amia Srinivasan, on Thursday joined a select band of scholars that includes the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, when she was elected a Fellow of at Oxford University’s prestigious All Souls ...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Steven Poole enjoys a rigorous examination of an abstract notion Humans are often misled by abstract nouns of their own making, and sometimes the bamboozlement can last centuries or more. Because one can say the word "justice", one might conclude that a singular thing or essence called "justice" actually exists. And so one could spend a life trying to figure out what this abstract...
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MyQuest (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I wrote this once and it disappeared when I went to save it! Here goes again. Many of the readings this week are about God's provision I Kings 17:8-16 is the story of the Widow of Zarepath, whom God sustains through a faminine. We know from Nobel Ecomonics Laureate Amartya Sen that most famines result from poor governance and ecomonic systems. There is usually adequate food to sustain a population,...
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MTEF (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Princeton’s Dixit Discusses Nobel for Ostrom, Williamson Calvo Sees Difficulty Unwinding Stimulus Packages Bill Clinton Cites Discipline, Growth to Cut Deficit Rogoff, Reinhart on Their Book `This Time Is Different' Skidelsky Says Stimulus Debates Today Same as 1930s Zandi Sees Little Traction for U.S. Recovery in 2010 Plosser Says No Bank Should Be Too Big to Fail Sustainable Wealth: Achieve...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By Bhaskar Roy http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers35/paper3477.html The uncalled for polemics between the Chinese establishment which includes the Chinese official media, and the Indian media which was drawing in the Indian officialdom, was put into cold storage in the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - Premier Wen Jiabao meeting at Hua Hin, Thailand, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit, on October...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen discusses cinema exclusively for TOI with actress daughter Nandana Sen in Mumbai.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
MUMBAI: India needs to invest more on providing basic health care services, especially in rural areas and backward States, noted economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said here on Friday. “There is not enough public service ...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Renowned economist and Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen, today said India needs to invest more in providing basic health care services.
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AumTrails Explore Deeper (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Nandana Nandana Sen is the daughter of “Nobel Laureate” economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the [...] International Actress Nandana Sen is a post from: AumTrails - Explore Deep!
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café salemba (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Update: a typo in the 7th paragraph has been corrected. Thanks, Roby. Also, take a look of Haryo Aswicahyono's nice analogy of Williamson's work here (Facebook member only). If you are betting on Oliver Williamson winning this year’s Nobel Prize, congratulations! According to Ladbrokes, his odd was 50/1. Elinor Olstrom was not even on the market as she is a political scientist by profession....
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Bulletin.India (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The feat comes over a decade after Amartya Sen won the coveted award in 1998 in the field of Economics.
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The feat comes over a decade after Amartya Sen won the coveted award in 1998 in the field of Economics.
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Macroprudential regulation is based upon a grand panoptic view that promises more Keystone Kops By Peter Foster W ill French President Nicolas Sarkozy storm out of the G20 meetings over bankers’ pay, as he recently threatened? Will he manage to insert his demands to incorporate “happiness” into national income statistics? The latter may seem a little frivolous given all the weighty...
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Preservation Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Two of the worlds most respected economists, Nobel Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, are heading a French government commission on improving measurement of economic well-being. Among their many criticisms of the Gross Domestic Product as a measurement, they say the following in their overview document: "Surely, if one society chooses to limit its consumption of material goods, enjoying...
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