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, the ___________ of people who are thrown into turmoil when economies go wrong should be the focus of political intervention.

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Sen emphasizes the "predicament" of people affected by economic downturns as the focus for political intervention.

Amartya Sen | the Economics of Poverty