Empowering Women Is Key To Building A

[n]o Democracy With A Free Press Has Ever Experienced A Major Famine.

Virtually Everything We Do Is Dependent On Others, From The Arts And Culture To Farmers Who Grow The Food We Eat. Quite A Lot Of The Differences That Make Us Rich And Poor Are Matters Just Of Luck. To Somehow Revel In One’s Privilege Would Be A Mistake. An Even Bigger Mistake Would Be Trying To Convert That Into A Theory That The Rich Are So Much More Productive Than Many Of Us.

While I Am Interested Both In Economics And In Philosophy, The Union Of My Interests In The Two Fields Far Exceeds Their Intersection.

One Has To Be Realistic. One’s Concern For Equity And Justice In The World Must Not Carry One Into The Alien Territory Of Unreasoned Belief. That’s Very Important.

In India, [in] The Great Documents Like [the] Upanishads In Eighth Century B.c., You Find Some Of The Wisest [women] Making Great, Learned Speeches And Then You Worship Them, But Actually Don't Do Very Much About Girls' Education Generally. So I Think There Has Been A Kind Of Dual Presence Of Pain, Respect, And Saying You Are Great, Etc., But Not Providing The Basic Facilities That Make Women Able To Lead The Kind Of Life That They Would Like To And That Men Easily Do.