The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.
Amartya SenWhen I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.
Amartya SenEconomic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
Amartya SenOpponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
Amartya Sen