Choice of Techniques: An Aspect of the Theory of Planned Economic Development.

SEN, Amartya Kumar.

$1,750.00

Item Number: 1049

Oxford: Basil Blackford, 1960.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s dissertation. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed on the title page by Amartya Sen to a fellow economist. In very good condition.

Amartya Sen has been awarded over an astonishing ninety honorary degrees and more than fifteen awards, including the Nobel Prize in Economics (1998), the Bharat Ratna (1999), and the National Humanities Medal (2012) for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory. Choice of Techniques is Sen's first publication and is, thus, representative of the beginning of an illustrious career.