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Amartya Sen

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action.

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It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection

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The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

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A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

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The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute