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Past Commencement speakers have included United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan, Nobel laureate Amartya K. Sen, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Vice President Al Gore...
...Indian Express wrote last week that, following a phone call from University President Lawrence H. Summers, Singh accepted Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen’s invitation to speak at the University...
Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for contributions to welfare economics, will deliver the Class Day address at the Kennedy School today. He rejoined the Harvard economics department in January after spending nearly six years as master of Trinity College, Cambridge—a post he garnered after recommendation by the British prime minister...
...Amartya Sen is a hero to those of us who would recall economics to its roots in moral and political philosophy,” Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel writes in an e-mail. “He reminds us that economics can be a humane science, concerned not only with utility but also with human development, democracy and freedom...
...addition to readings by renowned economists Joseph Stieglitz, William Easterly and Amartya Sen, Summers also assigned some of his own published work. Readings that discussed Summers’ tenure as secretary of the Treasury and chief economist of the World Bank were also on the syllabus, like a recent memoir by Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ former colleague...