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Home in the World; A Memoir Amartya Sen Allen Lane An imprint of Penguin Books Amartya Sen takes us on journeys all the way to an intellectually endowed horizon. For people who belong to his generation as also the one which followed his, Home in the World is a recapitulation of the ideas which... Read more »

At 23, Amartya Sen finished the work for his PhD in one year and then set up an economics department An excerpt from the Nobel Laureate’s memoir, ‘Home in the World’. Amartya Sen receiving the Nobel Prize from Swedish King Carl Gustaf in 1998. | Peter Mueller / Reuters By June 1956, at the end of my first year as a research student, I had a set of chapters that looked as if they could form a dissertation. A substantial number of economists at various universities were w...

From Influences to Friendships and Intellectual Concerns, Amartya Sens Memoir Is Rich in Detail In the Home in the World, the clarity of Sen’s thought and the lucidity of his prose are delightful and entertaining. Amartya Sen. Photo: FPA S.r.l/Flickr CC BY NC 2.0 It is entirely apposite that the title of Amartya Sen’s memoir Home in the World echoes the title of one of Rabindranath Tagore’s more famous novels, The Home and the World ( Ghare Baire). Not only was the name Amartya...