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  1. Amartya Sen Awarded 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

    …ork to combat social inequality in education and healthcare is as relevant today as ever. Among Sen’s most important contributions is the idea of evaluating a society’s wealth not solely based on economic growth indices, but also on the opportunities for development available to all individuals who comprise that society, in particular its weakest members. Read more here A related article about Amartya Sen, written by philosopher Christian Neuhäuse…

  2. Commentary: What sets good and bad leaders apart in the coronavirus era

    …e main, democracies have fared better than non-democracies in handling the coronavirus pandemic. But the record is very varied indeed. What explains this? What can be done about it? Read the full article in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/what-sets-good-and-bad-leaders-apart-in-the-coronavirus-era-140013…

  3. In Memoriam – Kotaro Suzumura

    …hoice as well as the theory of social choice and welfare economics. Kotaro read widely and his keen awareness of the historical background of modern normative economics was a distinctive feature of his work on social choice and welfare. Together with K. J. Arrow and A. K. Sen, Kotaro edited the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 1 (North-Holland, 2002) and Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 2 (North-Holland, 2011), which cont…

  4. Henry Richardson Awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Philosophy

    …y that I have been abstractly defending for some time now. I call it “constructive ethical pragmatism,” honoring John Dewey’s insight that our “practical intelligence” makes us capable of reframing our deepest commitments on the fly, on the basis of reasons that arise in the context of action.” Read more at: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/henry-s-richardson/ The Guggenheim Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholar…

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