Great to see Julia Steinberger referencing the work of economist Amartya Sen. I still have a copy of Development as Freedom, it's essential reading for everyone who wants to understand the relationships between human freedoms and economics.

#economics #AmartyaSen #DevelopmentAsFreedom

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This is a quite extraordinary piece of misrepresentation. So far from being a demilitarised colony #india provided large numbers of volunteers for the #britishimperialforces in both world wars . The causes of the #bengalfamine are best set out by #amartyasen - who lived through it . Not enough was done quickly enough to avert it - and the problem was more to do with both a shortage of shipping worldwide and competition for food within the native population.