Amartya Sen
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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| Born | 3 November 1933
(aged 92) Shantiniketan, then-British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Presidency College of the University of Calcutta (BA), Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Children | Nandana Sen |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) Bharat Ratna (1999) National Humanities Medal (2012)[1] |
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| Fields | Welfare economics, development economics, ethics |
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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.[4]
Amartya Sen Media
- Pratichi - The house of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Shantiniketan, Bolpur.jpg
'Pratichi', Sen's house in Shantiniketan
- The Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen delivering the Inaugural Prof. Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Parliamentary Lecture on the theme “Demands of Social Justice”, at Parliament House, in New Delhi on August 11, 2008.jpg
Sen giving inaugural parliamentary lecture at Parliament House (India)
- The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with Prof. Amartya Sen at a meeting with the members of Nalanda Mentor Group, in New Delhi on August 13, 2008.jpg
- The Chancellor of Nalanda University, Prof. Amartya Sen meeting the President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on October 09, 2012.jpg
Sen with 13th President of India Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2012
- Amartya Sen e Emma Georgina Rothschild, historiadora da economia e Professora em Harvard, no Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre 2012 (6971622120).jpg
Sen with his wife Emma Rothschild.
References
- ↑ President Obama Awards 2011 National Humanities Medals. National Endowment for the Humanities. December 13, 2012. http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2012-02-13-0. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
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Further reading
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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
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