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.
-According to Sen, famine is not just caused by a shortage of food but by

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Amartya Sen argues that famine is caused not just by a shortage of food but also by factors like unemployment and a drop in income, which affect people's ability to access food.

Amartya Sen | the Economics of Poverty