Amartya Sen | the Economics of Poverty

Amartya Sen | The Economics of Poverty
This reading is the transcript of an interview with Amartya Sen after he won the Nobel Prize for his work on welfare economics. He describes the profound impact that living through a famine had on him at a young age and how that came to shape his later work on the causes of poverty and hunger. He notes that while economists originally set out to merely understand the fluctuations of the market, they should then feel compelled to not only understand but also resolve the world financial crises produced by the capitalist system.
-Rather than focus on money and capital, as do most economists, Amartya Sen is concerned primarily with how capitalist economies adversely affect the

A) middle class.
B) upper class.
C) poor and the hungry.
D) government.