LSE - Small Logo
LSE - Small Logo
LSE - Large Logo

Victoria Dyas

January 8th, 2014

Public Event with Amartya Sen: ‘Poverty and the Tolerance of the Intolerable’

0 comments

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Victoria Dyas

January 8th, 2014

Public Event with Amartya Sen: ‘Poverty and the Tolerance of the Intolerable’

0 comments

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Prospect Magazine public lecture @ LSE

SEN_113_148Date: Wednesday 22 January 2014
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre
Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen

 

Drawing on his ground-breaking work on poverty and development, Professor Sen will examine some of the biggest economic, moral and philosophical issues facing anti-poverty campaigners today.

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and professor of economics and philosophy, at Harvard University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contributions to the study of fundamental problems in welfare economics. His most recent book is An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions, co-authored with Jean Dreze. Professor Sen in an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEpoverty

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation| is an endowed foundation funding a UK-wide research and development programme.

Prospect Magazine| is “Britain’s leading monthly current affairs magazine”.

Further information about this event can be found here.

About the author

Victoria Dyas

Posted In: Events

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Posts

Events

Cutting Edge Issues in Development: Don’t Panic, Prepare – Pathways for Inclusive Growth in the Digital Age

November 21st, 2018
Events

LSE Global Health Initiative Launch Event

September 27th, 2017

2
Events

LSE ID Event with Felix Salmon: Sovereign Debt in Argentina

February 2nd, 2015
Events

An IMF for an unstable monetary system

January 22nd, 2020

RSS Justice and Security Research Programme

  • JSRP and the future
    The JSRP drew to a close in 2017 but many of the researchers and partners involved in the programme continue to work on the issues and theories developed during the lifetime of the programme. Tim Allen now directs the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa (FLCA) at LSE where many of the JSRP research team working […]
  • Life after the LRA
    The JSRP reached the end of its grant in spring 2017 but several outputs from the programme are scheduled for publication in the coming months. The most recent of these is a new journal article from Holly Porter and Letha Victor drawing on their extensive research with JSRP in the Acholi region of northern Uganda.  The […]

RSS LSE’s engagement with South Asia

  • Skewed Normatives in India’s Judicial Discourse on Rape
    India has relatively strong legal frameworks in place to promote gender equality. However, the achievement of justice and equality for women in their everyday lives remains an elusive goal. Medha Garg analyses some judicial pronouncements from cases involving rape to argue that the judiciary itself often displays patriarchal attitudes that indirectly reinforce sexist and misogynistic […]
  • South Asia: A Frontier for Sustainability on a Dying Planet
    How can South Asia contribute to Global Development? Elias Khoury — winner of the LSE South Asia Centre Vera Anstey Essay Competition 2022 — argues that the rest of the world, and especially countries of the Global North, should learn development strategies from South Asia which has pursued sustainable models despite challenges and problems, and achieved success.  […]