Choice of techniques: An aspect of the theory of planned economic development

by Amartya Sen

Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Third edition. Previous owner's name (the late Professor Sir Tony Atkinson) penned on FEP. Light marks and edgewear to the jacket. Small tear on the front upper edge. The rear of jacket and spine are tanned. Minor bumps to the hardcover spine ends. The page block head is foxed. Interior in very good condition, with clean and sound pages. CM

113 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1971

About the author

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Sen was best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from the years 1998 to 2004. He is the first Asian and the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college.

Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2006, Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes" and in 2010 included him in their "100 most influential persons in the world".