Il lavoro di Jean Drèze si concentra sullo sviluppo sociale ed economico, con un focus particolare sull'India. I suoi scritti approfondiscono temi come la povertà, la carestia, l'istruzione e l'azione pubblica. L'approccio di Drèze è caratterizzato da una ricerca rigorosa unita a un forte impulso per il cambiamento sociale. Le sue pubblicazioni esplorano frequentemente le intricate connessioni tra istituzioni, politiche e le vite delle popolazioni vulnerabili, illuminando percorsi verso una società più equa.
This collection of Jean Dreze's essays offer a unique insight on issues of hunger, poverty, inequality, corruption, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over the last twenty years. Sense and Solidarity enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create.
Two of the country's leading economists discuss how the underdevelopment of social services, archaic attitudes towards women and problems with physical services are a stark contrast to the fast-moving economic successes of India over the past 65 years. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)
After regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. This book presents an analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.
"'All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal.' With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the concept of purity, all from astonishingly different angles. Jean Marc Ah-Sen writes about love blooming between two writers belonging to feuding literary movements. Emily Anglin explores an architect's search for her twin at a rural historic house. Devon Code documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elderly woman. And Lee Henderson imagines Dada artist Kurt Schwitters finding unlikely inspiration in a Second World War internment camp in northern Norway. These four virtuoso pieces, like four suites of music, are a celebration of stylistic variation through literary consonance."-- Provided by publisher
Ein Land und seine Widersprüche
Indien hat in den letzten 70 Jahren eine erstaunliche wirtschaftliche und politische Erfolgsgeschichte vorzuweisen. Zugleich herrschen in der größten Demokratie der Erde weiterhin krasse soziale Ungleichheit und großes Elend in den Unterschichten vor. Amartya Sen und sein Schüler Jean Drèze gehen in ihrer brillanten Analyse den Ursachen dieser Widersprüchlichkeiten auf den Grund. Diese durchaus kritische Betrachtung behandelt die allgemeine ökonomische, politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung Indiens von seiner Unabhängigkeit bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfährt hierbei die Rolle, welche die Einführung eines demokratischen Systems auf die Wirtschaft und das soziale Gefüge des einstigen Entwicklungslandes spielte. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und Vergleiche mit anderen Ländern führen die Autoren vor Augen, wie die Vernachlässigung sozialer Probleme letzten Endes gravierende Auswirkungen auf das ökonomische, aber auch politische System des Landes haben konnte.