Mises Daily
Author:
Gene Epstein
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Barron’s October 19, 1998 Oh, Those Assumptions! An engineer, a chemist and an economist are marooned on an island ... . Maybe you’ve heard that classic joke, maybe you haven’t. But either way, it’s worth reviewing, since it bears direct relevance to the work of the 64-year-old Indian economist Amartya Sen, formerly of Harvard, currently at