3 thoughts on “Amartya Sen (by M. Bossert)

  1. Wow that was great! I felt like I was listening to an official podcast, not just a class project. I learned why Amartya Sen should be included in talks related to Food and Farms studies because of his work in welfare economics. His belief that the reason for famine is not a lack of food but a lack of distribution is important to recognize. My person, Frances Moore Lappe also argued for this point. However, even if this point is widespread in the food community, unfortunately not enough is being done to address it and people are just adding more “pie.” I really liked the music. It definitely added to the podcast feel. The interview with your friend was a great addition of a different perspective. Overall the tone of your voice was upbeat and excited, therefore making me very excited to hear what you had to say. A recommendation I have is to try to get some other sound clips to add. Regardless it was good, but sound from your person or someone talking about your person might help to break up the straight narrative.

  2. I really enjoyed it! You did an excellent job at framing the podcast as an engaging story. Prior to listening, I hadn’t heard of Amartya Sen, so I really enjoyed hearing about Sen’s welfare economics philosophy. His idea that there is enough food in the world but it is not being distributed well is a great example of a critique pie problem perspective to Norman Borlaug (who I did my profile on). The music selections and clips were a great addition and made me feel like I was listening to a real, well-produced podcast. I liked that you incorporated an interview with your friend; I think engaging your friend in even more of the podcast discussion could have been a nice stylistic choice as well!

  3. Nicely done, Maria! The podcast itself was very realistic and informative, while also being quite engaging as a listener. I loved the discussion and definitely learned from the content regarding Sen’s actual economic arguments and philosophy, specifically how it was cofounding variables (low wages, unemployment, distributive issues) that intensified a famine, not a food scarcity itself. As a hopeful econ/evst double major, your dialogue on the interconnection between food injustice and market structure was super interesting and definitely something I want to further research. With this, the detail, structure, and interview aspect worked very well, but, in the future, you might want to try being a little bit more concise with some elements. Either way, you did an amazing job and I really enjoyed listening.

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