Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective

Book Overview

This unique volume is the first to examine Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's ideas through the lens of gender. His humanitarian approach to economics has been crucial to the development of several aspects of feminist economics and gender analysis. This book outlines the range and usefulness of his work for gender analysis while also exploring some of its silences and implicit assumptions.

The result is a collection of groundbreaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415373204
• ISBN13: 9780415373203
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"