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Money and Value: On The Ethics and Economics of Finance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
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Harvard University
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I feel deeply honored and privileged to have the opportunity of giving the first Baffi Lecture at the Bank of Italy. Paolo Baffi was not only a distinguished banker and financial expert, he was also a remarkable economist and a visionary social thinker. He had outstanding technical expertise in many different fields, but combined his intellectual eminence with a profound sense of values. As Governor Ciampi put it at the general meeting of the Bank of Italy last May, Paolo Baffi represented “an extraordinary combination of penetrating logic, erudition and moral strength … [he was] not only a gifted student of economics, he had a deep-seated commitment to act for the common good.”1 In remembering Baffi today, we must keep in mind both his intellectual contributions and his general evaluative concerns.

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1993 , pp. 203 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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