Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher renowned for his work on welfare economics, social choice theory, and development, and a Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economic Sciences.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences
academic
economist
human
philosopher
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts in Economics
PhD in Economics
awardReceived Bharat Ratna
Leontief Prize
National Humanities Medal
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Order of Companion of Honour
birthCountry India
birthDate 1933-11-03
birthPlace Santiniketan
citizenship India
educatedAt Presidency College, Kolkata
Trinity College, Cambridge
employer Delhi School of Economics
Harvard University
London School of Economics
Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Oxford
familyName Sen
fieldOfWork development economics
economic theory
ethics
political philosophy
social choice theory
welfare economics
givenName Amartya
influenced Human Development Index
Martha Nussbaum
knownFor analysis of famine
capability approach
contributions to development as freedom
theory of human development
work on social choice theory
work on welfare economics
languageSpoken Bengali
English
name Amartya Sen
notableWork Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Development as Freedom
Inequality Reexamined
Poverty and Famines
The Idea of Justice
positionHeld Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
spouse Emma Georgina Rothschild
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
theoryDeveloped capability approach


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