Amartya Sen: The Content of Democracy

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Khadija Haq

Khadija Haq is president of Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, a policy research institution and a think-tank based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Currently she is also chairman of North South Roundtable, an influential global policy research and dialogue forum of leading thinkers and policy makers from developing and developed countries. From 1990-96, Khadija Haq was senior adviser on education at UNICEF office in New York, designing policies and programmes for advancing education in developing countries with a particular focus on the education of girls. As a development economist, Khadija Haq has researched and written extensively on the issues of economic and social development and on women's empowerment.

Bob Kerrey

Bob Kerrey is president of The New School in New York City.

For twelve years prior to becoming president of The New School, Bob Kerrey represented the State of Nebraska in the United States Senate. Before that, he served as Nebraska's governor for four years.

Bob Kerrey is the author of When I Was A Young Man: A Memoir, published by Harcourt Books (May 2002). He served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, currently leads a five year writing challenge sponsored by The National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, and is co-chair with Newt Gingrich of The National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care.

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is a Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor.

Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war.

Amartya Sen has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory. Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes" in 2006 and included him in their "100 most influential persons in the world" for 2010. New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of 'World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter'.

George Soros

George Soros is chair of Soros Fund Management LLC. Born in Budapest, he survived the Nazi occupation and fled Communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. He then settled in the United States, where he accumulated a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed. An active philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Cape Town University in apartheid South Africa, Soros has established a network of philanthropic organizations in more than fifty countries. These organizations are dedicated to promoting the values of democracy and an open society. The foundation network spends about $450 million annually. Soros is the author of nine books, including most recently The Age of Fallibility. His articles and essays on politics, society, and economics regularly appear in major newspapers and magazines around the world. He lives in New York City.

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Opening Comments

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Introduction

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Mahbub ul Haq

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Human Development View of Justice

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Focus on Lives and Freedom

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Responsibility and Effective Power

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Comparative Issues

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Transcendental Identification

05 min 53 sec

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Globally Unrestricted Coverage

05 min 31 sec

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Response to Key Points

08 min 51 sec

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Q1: Minimal Humanitarianism

04 min 24 sec

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Q2: Power

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Q3: Absolute Human Rights

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Q4: Ethic of Care

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Q5: Obligation Ambiguities

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Q6: Long View Comparison

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Quick Round of Questions

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Q7: Market Role in Justice

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Q8: Whose Responsibility

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Posted: 09.15.10, 11:51 AM

Brilliant! What geniuses !

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