Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Lecture 3-26-2010

Harvard Professor and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks on "The Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith" at Duke University as part of a celebration weekend of the 40th anniversary of the History of Political Economy Journal.

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• economics
• harvard
• amartya sen
• duke economics
• duke university
• history of political economy
• mother teresa of economics

[Bellantoni]

Sen starts at 6:28

[innodeva]

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[mehedihassancse]

Oh..God! Look at his academic background n career...he touch harvard ...oxford...cambridge..im jelous Lp

[lilchimy]

The quote from Smith is slightly different: "When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters." There's a "sometimes" that Sen omits.

[adelle0001]

nice!

[qiqi9057033]

Duke, i thought it was harvard. Wawahwahhh! im kidding. GO FALCONS!

[xebhai]

This man is a theorist. I much prefer Professor Ravi Batra. Batra is a seminal piece of work bold enough to challenge orthodoxy. It is something the establishment does not like. He is the young man that has continually told the king he has no new clothes. This is an establishment. Nothing seminal about him. Eat the Nobel prize Professor. Smith is boring and so are you.

[immak4u]

no doubt he is an epic man. but he shouldnt just read some script all the time. no animation=bad lecture

he should give a printout of those pages to the students instead of reading it continuously without any type of explanation.

[dmuwina]

@s291185 Actually his "Development as Freedom" sold well before he received the Nobel. If anything most people in fields such as sciences become popular after winning the Nobel. They are often known and respected in their fields but not outside. Who knew who Paul krugman was before he won the Nobel?

[dmuwina]

@DNAFACTOR You mean you could not understand him? Perhaps I my ear is trained to many accents I had no trouble at all understanding him. Would you say an American who speaks English as first language should ask someone else to read their speech when they travel out of the US since their accents might be difficult to understand?

[metlin]

@s291185 He was quite popular for his work on famines much before he won the Nobel, even outside the economic community and academia. He's an engaging writer, his pedigree and credentials notwithstanding.

[DNAFACTOR]

It appears he has referred about 100 different books to workout a lecture note and reading out to us. I believe he could bring someone who could read out more legibly.

[s291185]

Had Dr Amartya Sen’s books would have sold as well if he still had not received the Nobel. Other than Economists and Academicians and perhaps the whole tribe of Bengalis, I also wonder how many Indians would have heard of him before the Nobel. This may be a matter of an argument. Perhaps the Argumentative Indians by Dr Sen cn throw more light on the subject. If you are looking for the book, try uread.com

[goodinvestor]

Bloody awesome!