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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Nobel economics laureate A K Sen's The Idea of Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Justice-Amartya-Sen/dp/0674036131#reader_0674036131
This is very interesting to me, partly because I liked Rawl's book so much, and also because A. K. Sen spent some years in Mandalay, Burma, as a child and has been called in for Burma consults.
Parallel to the push to "elections" in 2010, there was also a much less publicized push towards justice and an ICC.
cheers
kmk
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala
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