Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1972. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries.
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| Born | Amartya Kumar Sen 3 November 1933 Santiniketan, Bengal, British India |
| Spouses | Nabaneeta Dev
(m. 1958; div. 1976) |
| Children | 4, including Nandana and Antara |
| Academic career | |
| Institutions | List
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| Field | Welfare economics Social choice theory Development economics |
| School or tradition | Capability approach |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta (BA) Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Doctoral students | Felicia Knaul, Ingrid Robeyns |
| Influences | Gautama Buddha, Adam Smith, John Rawls, John Maynard Keynes, B. R. Ambedkar, Kenneth Arrow, Piero Sraffa, Maurice Dobb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx |
| Contributions | Human development theory Entitlement approach to famine |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) Bharat Ratna (1999) National Humanities Medal (2012) Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2017) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He is currently a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He formerly served as Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In 1998, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1999, India's highest civilian honour — Bharat Ratna, for his contribution to welfare economics. The German Publishers and Booksellers Association awarded him the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his pioneering scholarship addressing issues of global justice and combating social inequality in education and healthcare.