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Quotes from Foreword to The Passions and the Interests by Albert O. Hirschman — Amartya Sen

born 1933 India

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I personally have great skepticism about the theories extolling the wonders of "Asian values." They are often based on badly researched generalizations and frequently uttered by governmental spokesmen countering accusations of authoritarianism and violations of human rights (as happened spectacularly at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993).

Foreword to The Passions and the Interests by Albert O. Hirschman (1996)

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