Amartya Sen: Indian economist and philosopher
Amartya Kumar Sen (born November 3, 1933) is an Indian economist.
Since 1956, he has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. He worked in welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries.
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 Sen in 2012 | |
| Born | November 3, 1933 Shantiniketan, then-British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Presidency College of the University of Calcutta (BA), Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Spouse(s) | Nabaneeta Dev (1958–1976) Eva Colorni (1978–1985) Emma Rothschild (m. 1991) |
| Children | Nandana Sen |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) Bharat Ratna (1999) National Humanities Medal (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Welfare economics, development economics, ethics |
| Influences | |
| Influenced | List
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. He was also awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize in recognition of his work on welfare economics in February 2015 during a reception at the Royal Academy in the UK.
References
Further reading
- Forman-Barzilai, Fonna (2012), "Taking a broader view of humanity: an interview with Amartya Sen.", in Browning, Gary; Dimova-Cookson, Maria; Prokhovnik, Raia (eds.), Dialogues with contemporary political theorists, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 170–180, ISBN 9780230303058
- Various (2003). "Special issue, on Amartya Sen". Feminist Economics. 9 (2–3). Taylor and Francis.
Other websites
- Amartya Sen Archived April 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at Harvard University
- The Possibility of Social Choice 1998 lecture at NobelPrize.org
- Profile and Papers at Research Papers in Economics/RePEc
- Amartya Sen (1933– ). Library of Economics and Liberty (2nd ed.). Liberty Fund. 2008.
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