Amartya Sen podcast

This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season four, episode three. Sen changed how economists measure development: away from income alone and towards a broader conception of capability and freedom, which is the intellectual foundation of the Human Development Index (HDI). His empirical finding that no substantial famine has ever occurred in a functioning democracy is one of the most striking claims in development economics, and the episode gives it proper attention. One of the more directly spec-relevant episodes in Season 4: HDI and its relationship to GDP is tested content, and Sen’s critique of pure income measures is exactly the kind of evaluative point students should be making. Accessible and directly useful for macro and development topics.  Listen here