Amartya Sen

of the Revolutionary Alliance without receiving direction from Sun Yat-sen, the party founder. Sun Yat-sen had no control over the members of his party, or the revolution itself. Holcombe states, “Dr. Sun Yat-sen, meanwhile, was in Colorado at the time this unplanned revolution erupted and read about it in the news while traveling by train from Denver to Kansas City.” This impromptu rebellion undermined the goals of Sun Yat-sen. Though the Qing government fell, Sun Yat-sen’s ideas for…

Sun Yatsen is known as ‘the father of the nation’ (China). He was one the of the Chinese revolutionaries who brought about the ideas of modernism and the plans to regenerate the nation of China. Sun was the one who had taught the ideas of his revolution to the ones who triggered the double tenth (10th October 1911), where nationalists began an uprising against the imperial system. This was the the Qing, imperial rulers of China. The entire imperial system had lasted for about 3000 years, but…

I would like to study China’s 1935 Currency Reform to investigate the central-provincial relations. After graduating from Stony Brook University, I worked at a business firm where I found that the current European debt crisis shares some similarities with Chinese economy of the 1930s. One of the most crucial issues of the euro crisis is the legitimacy of the European Central Bank. Some members, like Greece, argue that the monetary policy of euro only considers Germany’s interests, but neglects…

Amartya Sen,( an anccesible and exceptional humanitarian – Jon snow, New Statesman) is Lamont University, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, at Harvard university. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998-2004. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, and Identity and Violence. Philosophy Amartya Sen said that Justice should not be in Binary terms – It is a matter of…

to analyze how she utilizes social theory in her book to form arguments regarding the progressive relationship social media and social movements have developed over time. As well as address the theoretical principles of two social theorists, (Amartya Sen, ) referenced by Tufekci and explain the usefulness of those principles to assist in evaluating her writing as a work of social theory. Tufekci aims to create a framework to convey her ideology on the rapid development of networked public…

Adam Smith’s idea on self-interest in the market, is what we refer to as the “invisible hand” argument. Smith believed that there is an invisible force that motivates people’s behaviour, which leads to successful markets. One of the main premises of this argument, is that all individuals strive to earn a good living, which in turn allows them to support themselves and their families. In trying to pursue a good living, individual’s subconsciously make a social contribution – by creating a good…

The book is a amalgamation of contributions of Novel Prize winner renowned economist Amartya Sen’s, glorious papers on public conversation and rational pluralism in Indian society that incorporate Indian history and uniqueness, culture, focusing on the custom public debates and intellectual pluralism. It is the perceptions of Indian culture, history, or individuality which is not inevitably distorted or discerning but also without having a clear scientific interpretation. The book is a coherent…

Amartya Sen’s capability approach is a theoretical framework for the evaluation of individual welfare. It provides a theoretical basis for inequality, poverty and policy analysis. In the recent decades the capability approach has gained much popularity as emphasis is laid on human development that goes beyond the previously important notions of sheer economic development. The earlier aspects of capability approach can be traced in the works of Aristotle, Karl Marx and Adam Smith; however, it is…

caused by injustices of private citizens and the government. However, once World War Two occurred, the public and the government had an overwhelming concurring opinion to enter the war. Legal power created justice initiated the boom in industry that propelled the United States during the war thus utility increased as both private citizens and the government benefitted from such actions. Social powers created justice because the citizens had increased patriotism and believed in a unified attitude…

interactions. Peter Evans and Amartya Sens both use the definitions of individual and structural analysis to define their positions on inequalities. Peter Evans writings focus…