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Nicolaas Bloembergen, Noam Chomsky, Frank O. Gehry, Andrew S. Grove, Judith R. Hope, Katherine B. Loker, Maclyn McCarty, Constance Baker Motley, Kenzaburo Oe, Seiji Ozawa and Amartya Sen will receive the degrees...
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...autobiography that accompanies his 1998 Nobel Prize lecture, Amartya K. Sen recounts the story of how a fellow passenger on a plane once him told of an "apparently interesting" course being taught at Harvard by "Kenneth Arrow, John Rawls and some unknown...
...year was 1969. Kenneth Arrow was the proponent of a radical new theory of social choice, about to win a Nobel Prize in economics; John Rawls, Conant University professor emeritus, was an established philosophy professor about to publish his monumental work A Theory of Justice and the third professor--Amartya Kumar Sen--was, well, "some unknown...
...Amartya Sen is a superb choice as Commencement speaker," wrote Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel in an e-mail message. "Rare among economists, Professor Sen keeps moral considerations at the center of his work. Rare among scholars, he brings his academic insights to bear on real world issues of poverty and human development...