Rationality and Freedom

Amartya Sen

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674013513

Publication Date: 03/30/2004

Short

752 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 line illustrations

Belknap Press

World

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Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University.

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Amartya Sen Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner

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