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Amartya Sen

A Nobel Laureate in Economics* with something vital to say:

The idea of justice demands comparisons of actual lives that people can lead, rather than a remote search for ideal institutions.

* Yes dearieme, Bank of Sweden in memory of, no, I don\’t care.

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Martin
Martin
16 years ago

I seem to recall that a Galilean carpenter was once nailed to a tree for saying something similar.

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