Ch. 7 section 2
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The continuous cries for help - from children and women and men - ring in my ears, even today seventy-seven years later. (pg. 115)
— Amartya Sen
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Source: Wikiquote: "Amartya Sen" (Quotes, 2020s: Sen, Amartya (2022), Home in the World: A Memoir, (First American edition ed.) publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 978-1-324-09161-5)
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About Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics.
About Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics.
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