Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

If jobs are important, education is important.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty