Capitalism

Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism Tim Rogan is a fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge,
where he teaches history. He is the author of The Moral Economists: R H Tawney, Karl Polanyi,
E P Thompson and the Critique of Capitalism (2017
Edited by Sam Haselby

Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja

Amartya Sen photographed in New Delhi, 2017. Photo by Priyanka Parashar/Mint/Getty

Critiques of capitalism come in two varieties. First, there is the moral or spiritual critique. This critique rejects Homo economicus as the organising heuristic of human affairs. Human beings, it says, need more than material things to prosper. Calculating power is only a small part of what makes us who we are. Moral and spiritual relationships are first-order concerns. Material fixes such as a universal basic income will make no difference to societies in which the basic relationships are felt to be unjust. /.../