It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desperate lives, and why millions of innocent children...
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
The Vedas may be full of hymns and religious invocations, but they also tell stories, speculate about the world and – true to the argumentative propensity already in view – ask difficult questions. A...
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifi...
يمكن أن تنبثق من الناس متنوعي التجارب والمشارب نقاشات عقلانية متضادة، لكن هذه تأتي كذلك من مجتمع بعينه ، أو من وجهة النظر هذه من الشخص نفسه .
While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
يمكن أن تنبثق من الناس متنوعي التجارب والمشارب نثاشات عقلانية متضادة، لكن هذه تأتي كذلك من مجتمع بعينه ، أو من وجهة النظر هذه من الشخص نفسه .
إنّ الادعاء بأن الناس سيوافقون على طرح معين إن كان لهم أن يفكروا بحريةٍ وحيدة لا يفترض أن الناس كذلك فعلاً
العدالة مرتبطة في النهاية بطريقة حياة الناس، لا بطبيعة المؤسسات المحيطة بهم فحسب.
إن أسباب التطرف ليست دينية بل سياسية.
A good statement of an inherently imprecise concern – and most important concerns in the world are imprecise – must capture that imprecision, and not replace it by a precise statement about something...
The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
الأشخاص العقائديون جدًا يميلون إلى أنواع معينة من التفكير، قد تكون فجة جدًا، دعماً لعقائدهم.
التعصب تجاه معتقدات وديانات الآخرين لا يساعد على توليد الثقة في سماحة معتقد ودين المرء نفسه.
So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the...
The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions...
التفكير مهم جدًا لفهم العدالة حتى في عالم فيه كثير من الجنون.