RSA - Reducing Global Injustice

Reducing Global Injustice

7th Jul 2010; 18:00

(full recording including audience Q&A)
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RSA / BookPower Event

Amartya Sen is a specialist in welfare economics, known for his work in development economics – famine, human development, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality and political liberalism.

His latest book, The Idea of Justice, argues that instead of pursuing ideas of ‘perfect justice’, the concern of philosophy should be determining what makes societies unjust, and how this can be overcome.

Professor Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics at Harvard will be in conversation with Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA.

Chair: Lord Wright of Richmond GCMG, former head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The event is supported by BookPower, the charity which enables the supply of tertiary and professional textbooks to students in developing countries at highly discounted prices. Amartya Sen is a patron of BookPower and a supporter of its work in enabling the development of professional expertise and so increasing self-reliance in emergent countries.

Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #rsainjustice