Amartya Sen

A week from today, on Thursday, March 15 is the Urban Design Program at City College's annual Lewis Mumford Lecture, featuring Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen discussing "The Urbanity of Calcutta." The Nobel was awarded to Sen for his contributions to welfare economics, though his ongoing research also addresses social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, and the economics of peace and war. Perhaps his most well-known book is Development as Freedom. In that book he espouses that individual freedom is the goal and the means of development, concomitantly removing certain "unfreedoms" that may exist, to "sustain economic life and counter poverty and insecurity in the contemporary world."

If you'll be in New York please stop by (it's free!) and also spread the word.


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