GRAND PURSUIT The Story of Economic Genius By Sylvia Nasar Illustrated. 558 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35. Listen to the economic debates of the past couple of years, and it's tempting to conclude that no progress has been made in the field in over half a century. There's John Maynard Keynes on the one side, arguing for deficit spending to offset the...
Whatever you may think progress looks like -- a rebounding stock market, a new house, a good raise -- the governments of the world have long held the view that only one statistic, the measure of gross domestic product, can really show whether things seem to be getting better or getting worse. G.D.P. is an index of a country's entire economic output...
A British-era relic is facing a new challenge in India, as a growing citizens' movement rallies against a 145-year-old law still embedded in the Indian penal code that bans gay sex. On Saturday an open letter to the government will be officially unveiled, calling for the repeal of what is known by its official moniker, Section 377, which makes...
Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengalsk: অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন Ômorto Kumar Shen) (født 3. november 1933) er indisk økonom, filosof og vinder af Nobelprisen i økonomi i 1998 på baggrund af hans arbejde inden for velfærdsøkonomi.