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...a theory of justice that can serve as the basis of practical reasoning must include ways of judging how to reduce injustice and advance justice, rather than aiming only at the characterization of perfectly just societies – an exercise that is such a dominant feature of many theories of justice in political philosophy today.

Amartya Sen

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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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Native Name: অমর্ত্য সেন

Alternative Names: Amartya Kumar Sen • Professor Amartya Kumar Sen

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