An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions - Softcover

Drèze, Jean; Sen, Amartya

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ISBN 10: 0141975822 ISBN 13: 9780141975825

Verlag: Penguin, 2014

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After regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. The famines of the British era disappeared, along with economic stagnation; despite a recent dip, India's growth remains among the fastest in the world. Yet, Drèze and Sen argue, there have been failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions.

This book presents a powerful analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.

Biografía del autor:

Amartya Sen is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. He is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005) and The Idea of Justice (2010). They have been translated into more than 30 languages.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141975822
• ISBN 13: 9780141975825
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448