[lbo-talk] Amartya Sen delighted with Barack Obama’s victory

Lew wsm_mod at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Nov 6 08:22:29 PST 2008


John Gulick wrote:


> Of course Sen is the guy who received huge plaudits for "discovering"

> that the big reason why those without access to arable land starve

> to death is because of insufficient income.
> For this breakthrough insight he received the Nobel Prize.

Sen won the 1998 "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" - not to be confused with the "Nobel Prize", which is awarded by the Nobel Foundation.



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