Amartya Sen at the Bangladesh Bhavan auditorium in Santiniketan. The great Indian argumentative tradition was in full bloom in Rabindranath Tagore’s seat on Sunday evening, with two acclaimed economists arguing their cases with precise logic in front of a packed audience.
The topic: universal basic income as part of the right to minimum economic security. The debaters: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bardhan got the proceedings under way, arguing in favour of a universal basic income scheme, under which every citizen would be entitled to a periodic payment regardless of […]
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