{"product_id":"home-in-the-world-a-memoir-hardcover","title":"Home in the World: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmartya Sen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called \"a global intellectual\" (\u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places \"home,\" including Dhaka, in modern Bangladesh; Kolkata, where he first studied economics; and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he engaged with the greatest minds of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHome in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, these \"homes\" collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century life. Here Sen, \"one of the most distinguished minds of our time\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e), interweaves scenes from his remarkable life with candid philosophical reflections on economics, welfare, and social justice, demonstrating how his experiences--in Asia, Europe, and later America--vitally informed his work. In exquisite prose, Sen evokes his childhood travels on the rivers of Bengal, as well as the \"quiet beauty\" of Dhaka. The Mandalay of Orwell and Kipling is recast as a flourishing cultural center with pagodas, palaces, and bazaars, \"always humming with intriguing activities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith characteristic moral clarity and compassion, Sen reflects on the cataclysmic events that soon tore his world asunder, from the Bengal famine of 1943 to the struggle for Indian independence against colonial tyranny--and the outbreak of political violence that accompanied the end of British rule. Witnessing these lacerating tragedies only amplified Sen's sense of social purpose. He went on to study famine and inequality, wholly reconstructing theories of social choice and development. In 1998, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to welfare economics, which included a fuller understanding of poverty as the deprivation of human capability. Still Sen, a tireless champion of the dispossessed, remains an activist, working now as ever to empower vulnerable minorities and break down walls among warring ethnic groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much a book of penetrating ideas as of people and places, \u003cem\u003eHome in the World\u003c\/em\u003e is the ultimate \"portrait of a citizen of the world\" (\u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e), telling an extraordinary story of human empathy across distance and time, and above all, of being at home in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Kofi Annan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sen is one of the great minds of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We owe him a huge debt.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Nicholas Stern\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With his masterly prose, ease of erudition and ironic humour, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.53 x 9.96 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767428120864,"sku":"9781324091615","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c61fd0003f0125a253c2e21c59217bde.webp?v=1780310646","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/home-in-the-world-a-memoir-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}