Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen.
Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen.
Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing conversations in the famous Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading figures of the day. This is a book of ideas - especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow - as much as of people and places.
In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes 'the rivers of Bengal' along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The historic culture of Bengal is wonderfully explored, as is the political inflaming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the resistance to it. In 1943, Sen witnessed the Bengal famine and its disastrous development. Some of Sen's family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule: not surprisingly, the relationship between Britain and India is another main theme of the book. Forty-five years after he first arrived at 'the Gates of Trinity', one of Britain's greatest intellectual foundations, Sen became its Master.
Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have...
Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier.
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标题或可改为The Intellectual Auto-biography of Amartya Sen, and the significance of his Networks (1933-1960s). 这本自传集中于智识萌发和发展，讨论了森40岁以前的人生历程和时代背景。塑造森的三个教育面：出身书香门第，除了祖父（著名梵文学家和印度史家）的影响着墨最多，高知大家庭提供了丰富的交流机会；其次...标题或可改为The Intellectual Auto-biography of Amartya Sen, and the significance of his Networks (1933-1960s). 这本自传集中于智识萌发和发展，讨论了森40岁以前的人生历程和时代背景。塑造森的三个教育面：出身书香门第，除了祖父（著名梵文学家和印度史家）的影响着墨最多，高知大家庭提供了丰富的交流机会；其次中小学阶段受泰戈尔创办的进步学校Santiniketan影响深远，进一步喜欢讨论、自由探索；再后来当然是在剑桥完成本科到博士的学业，与当时最顶级的（经济）学者频繁交流。总之，他的自传中无处不在得体现了与人交游和切磋的重要性。缺点是，除了被治愈的口腔癌，森一生似乎从未迷惘，太顺了。(展开)
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2 有用 追随我心1802 2024-01-11 19:30:57 比利时
标题或可改为The Intellectual Auto-biography of Amartya Sen, and the significance of his Networks (1933-1960s). 这本自传集中于智识萌发和发展，讨论了森40岁以前的人生历程和时代背景。塑造森的三个教育面：出身书香门第，除了祖父（著名梵文学家和印度史家）的影响着墨最多，高知大家庭提供了丰富的交流机会；其次... 标题或可改为The Intellectual Auto-biography of Amartya Sen, and the significance of his Networks (1933-1960s). 这本自传集中于智识萌发和发展，讨论了森40岁以前的人生历程和时代背景。塑造森的三个教育面：出身书香门第，除了祖父（著名梵文学家和印度史家）的影响着墨最多，高知大家庭提供了丰富的交流机会；其次中小学阶段受泰戈尔创办的进步学校Santiniketan影响深远，进一步喜欢讨论、自由探索；再后来当然是在剑桥完成本科到博士的学业，与当时最顶级的（经济）学者频繁交流。总之，他的自传中无处不在得体现了与人交游和切磋的重要性。缺点是，除了被治愈的口腔癌，森一生似乎从未迷惘，太顺了。 (展开)
3 有用 小飞侠3799 2022-02-01 04:35:19
邂逅：2021年某日纯一姐姐推荐； 旅程：2021.12.25.-2022.1.31.； 地点：伦敦； 在因疫情而两年多没能回家的时候读森爷爷的四海为家，真是别有一番滋味啊。
0 有用 心若无涯 2024-02-20 10:55:27 浙江
旺盛的求知欲、开阔的眼界，以及真挚的同情心的。这三项素养，对我们每个人的一生，意义都很重大。即使你不是一位经济学爱好者，你也能从阿马蒂亚·森的回忆里，收获鼓舞和感动。毕竟，谁不希望能像他一样，拥有丰富而坚定的内心呢？
0 有用 梅砥宪 2025-02-11 23:26:24 北京
关于经济学理论的内容有点难，陌生人名地名很多，可以和中文版对照着读。
0 有用 胖胖软软甜甜 2024-02-28 18:22:28 上海
20240228得到听书