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1、OnAmartyaSenandTheIdeaofJusticeChrisBrownTheIdeaofJustice,AmartyaSen(Cambridge,Mass.:BelknapPress/HarvardUniversityPress,2009),496pp.,$29.95cloth.heIndianNobellaureateAmartyaSen,bornin1933,isoneofthemostimportantpublicintellectualsofourage,anoriginalthinkerwhosework
2、Ttranscendsthestandarddisciplinaryboundaries.His1998NobelPrizewasawardedforhisworkinwelfareeconomics,buttodescribehimasaneconomist(asthetermisunderstoodtoday)wouldbeinaccurate.Betterwouldbesocialphilosopher,or,betterstill,theoldtermpoliticaleconomist,sincethescopean
3、drangeofSensworkisdirectlycomparabletothatofsucheighteenth-andnineteenth-centurypractitionersofpoliticaleconomyasAdamSmith,JohnStuartMill,andKarlMarx.Indeed,MarxandespeciallySmitharekeyreferencepointsforSen,althoughitisSmithsTheoryofMoralSentimentsratherthanhisWealt
4、hofNationstowhichSenrefersmostoften,andsimilarlyitisMarxsmoreexplicitlyphilosophicalworksratherthanCapitalthatappealtohim.1Inthecourseofastellaracademiccareer,Senhaspublishedmorethantwodozenbooksandcountlessarticles.HetaughtatJadavpurUniversity,Calcutta,whileonleave
5、fromwritinghisPh.D.atCambridgeUniversityandwentontoteachattheDelhiSchoolofEconomics,Oxford,theLondonSchoolofEconomics,andHarvardbeforebeingelectedMasterofTrinityCollege,Cambridge,in1998.In2004hereturnedtoHarvardasLamontUniversityProfessor,ProfessorofEconomicsandPhil
6、osophy.Thecombiningofthesetwodisciplinesinthetitleofhischairspeaksvolumes.In2009Senpublishedamajorbook,TheIdeaofJustice,whichsummarizesandextendsmanyofthemostimportantthemeshehasdevelopedoverthelastquartercentury.2Butbeforegivinganaccountofthisworkanditsimportance,i
7、tmaybehelpfultoconsiderbrieflyafewofthetopicshehasaddressedthroughoutEthics&InternationalAffairs,24,no.3(2010),pp.30918.©2010CarnegieCouncilforEthicsinInternationalAffairs309hiscareerthatareofdirectrelevancetothekindofissueswithwhichreadersofEthics&InternationalAffai
8、rsareconcerned.Considerfirsttheissueofeconomicversuspoliticalrights.Itissometimesarguedthatpoorcountriescannotaffordtobetooconcernedwithpol
