Amartya Sen Quotes About Globalization

Quotes about: Globalization

• Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

  Amartya Sen

  Priorities, Needs, Unjust

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Economic Globalization, World

• Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Political, Economic Globalization

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.

  Amartya Sen

  Moving, Thinking, Views

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

  Amartya Sen

  Australia, People, India

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

  Amartya Sen

  Economic Globalization, Doe, Favors

• Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Important, Thank God

• The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple.

  Amartya Sen

  Sometimes, Globalization, Form

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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