"The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion." -Kofi Annan "Sen is one of the great minds of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We owe him a huge debt." -Nicholas Stern "With his masterly prose, ease of erudition and ironic humour, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." -Nadine Gordimer