The UCSD Division of Social Sciences, University Extension and the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies (IICAS) present:

A 50th Anniversary Helen Edison Lecture:
Amartya Sen, "Justice: Local and Global"

Thursday, March 31
7:00 pm
Price Center Ballroom West

Free and open to the public -- first come, first seated.

For information visit http://helenedison.ucsd.edu/eventsen.cfm, or contact Edie Munk at emunk@ucsd.edu or (858) 822-0510

Amartya Sen is a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1998) for his work on welfare economics. Best known for his work on the causes of famine, he has devoted his long and distinguished career to an astonishing range of subjects in economics and philosophy – including social choice theory, welfare economics, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. His capabilities approach to the measurement of human well-being has greatly influenced the development goals of the United Nations. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and include Choice of Techniques (1960), Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006) and The Idea of Justice (2009).

Professor Sen's lecture opens "New Frontiers in Global Justice," a conference to launch the new UCSD Center on Global Justice. For details and a list of campus sponsors, visit http://globaljustice.ucsd.edu/