Amartya Sen's memoir, Home in the World, presents the peripatetic thinker

The Nobel Prize-winning economist has combined pure memoir with chapters on fundamental philosophical, political or economic issues

Born in 1933, Amartya Sen is over 87 years old. At that age, most people of letters tend to relax and ruminate. Not Sen. With Covid-19 having taken away his incessant travels and lecturing and battened him down at his house in Cambridge, Mass­ach­usetts, Sen has written his memoir — which is either his 30th or 31st book, a list that began with his PhD thesis, Choice of Techniques, published by Basil Blackwell in 1960.

This book consists of five parts — comprising a combination of pure memoir with chapters on fundamental philosophical, political or economic issues.

Part One deals