Eloquently written, Home in the World is a memoir going deep in detail about Sen’s early days, as well as the trials and tribulations he faced while trying to get a break in his academic career. Accounts of Partition as well as other decrepit details of Independence stimulated my curiosity tremendously, as well as the explanation of his particular approach to economics. There can hardly be a more well-read intellectual that the English-speaking world has seen.
What I liked about it: Lucid language and hard to put down. The book goes past like a breeze and the four hundred-odd pages took me four days to complete. Sen adds a good mixture of humour, and dry wit as well as an explanation of technical terms in economics in equal terms. The treatises on Marx and Keynes are particular eye-catchers. His days in Santiniketan, Presidency College and later Cambridge are wonderfully illustrated.
What could have been better: Sen could have delved deeper into neo-classicism than gone in raptures every time he encountered social welfare economics in the book. Although he laid down the ideas that he plans to implement for delineating poverty, he could have gone more in-depth. It seemed as if he whet my appetite but then failed to serve the entree.
Rating: 4/5
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