About the interview
Are there more poor people on our planet today than there were last year? Many economists would approach this question as mainly a technical problem, a matter of counting. Sanjay Reddy did, too, but soon recognized that a sound answer required making normative criteria explicit. Much confusion and many technical muddles in poverty measurement can be avoided, Reddy says, only if we become conscious and deliberate about how values enter the analysis. Fact and value are entangled, and Reddy shows how recognizing this leads to greater analytical clarity -- this is new economic thinking.
About Sanjay Reddy
Sanjay is an associate professor of economics at The New School for Social Research. His areas of work include development economics, international economics, and economics and philosophy. More...
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It is heartening to see that economists of the quality and intellectual leanings of Professor Reddy are being supported by INET.
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