From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.
A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places âhome,â from Dhaka in modern Bangladesh to Trinity College, Cambridge. In Home in the World, these âhomesâ collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first century life. Interweaving scenes from his youth with candid reflections on wealth, welfare, and social justice, Sen shows how his life experiencesâin Asia, Europe, and later Americaâvitally informed his work, culminating in the ultimate âportrait of a citizen of the worldâ (Philip Hensher, Spectator).
âSen is more than an economist, moral philosopher or even an academic. He is a life-long campaigner ⊠for a more noble idea of home.ââEdward Luce, Financial Times (UK)