About Amartya
Amartya Kumar Sen was born on 3 November 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal, British India. He is an Indian economist and philosopher who has worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He is currently Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and professor of economics and philosophy, at Harvard University. He previously served as master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In 1999, he received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.
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Expert / AcademicDevelopmentSocial JusticePhilosophyEconomicsFaminesGender StudiesHuman CapabilitiesPublic HealthSocial Choice Theory
Known for
- poverty and famines
- liberal paradox
- human development theory
- Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1998)
- social choice theory
- capability approach
- development economics
- welfare economics
- Development as Freedom
- The Idea of Justice
- gender inequality research
- famine analysis
- capability approach to development
- Development as Freedom (1999)
- The Idea of Justice (2009)
- Poverty and Famines (1981)
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