The Amartya Sen Lecture 2015: law, economics and the Republic of Beliefs

Earlier this month, Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, delivered a lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The event was chaired by Craig Calhoun, and Amartya Sen and Lord Nicholas Stern were discussants. Ankita Mukhopadhyay reports.