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Amartya Sen is an Indian-born Harvard University economist whose work focuses on the economics of welfare and poverty. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economics "for his contributions to welfare economics."
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Fast Facts:
- Born: November 3, 1933
- Birthplace: Santiniketan, India
- Academic Institution: Harvard University
- Occupation: Professor of Economics
- Alma-mater: B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1956
- Graduate Degree: Ph.D., Trinity College, 1959
- Phone: 617.495.1871
- Fax: 617.496.5942
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Key Dates
- 1933: Born in India
- 1956: Graduates from Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1959: Earns Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1981: Publishes book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
- 1998: Wins Nobel Prize for Economics
- 1999: Receives Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor
- 2004: Becomes member of Harvard faculty for second time
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Work and Theories
Sen's book, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, changed the way that the world looked at mass starvation. Previously, economists and politicians had assumed that starvation, logically, was the result of an absence of food. Sen demonstrated that this was not so, and that starvation and famine was more the result of an ineffective distribution of food amongst the population rather than from any actual shortage of food. Sen's experience in the West Bengal famine of 1953 informed his theories. Today, Sen's perspective on famine is commonly accepted as fact. -
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Guardian Unlimited: Food for thought (2001)
As a child, he was deeply affected by an encounter with famine victims. Now an Oxbridge academic and Nobel prize winner, he has spent a lifetime fighting poverty with analysis rather than activism. Known…guardian.co.uk -
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UCSC.edu: More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing (1990)
An article by Amartya Sen from The New York Review of Books, December 20, 1990ucatlas.ucsc.edu
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Development as Freedom - $16.00
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end...
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Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny - $13.95
The world may be more driven by murderous violence than ever before, yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues in this sweeping philosophical work that its brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Sen argues in his ...
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Public Health, Ethics, and Equity - $47.25
This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; h...
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity - $15.00
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argum...
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The Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze Omnibus: (comprising) Poverty and Famines; Hunger and Public Action; India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity - $49.50
The Sen and Dreze omnibus comprises three outstanding works by two of the world's finest economists. The volume is a trilogy on the causes of hunger, the role public action can play in its alleviation, and the Indian experience in this cont...
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@barbarindian Amartya Sen is radical in many views and out of the mainstream. He might nominate Ghazni for greatest traveler
@cbcnn | November 11, 2009 08:06 PM -
@cbcnn Amartya Sen feels Akbar was the greatest leader of India of all times, funny he had to go so far back and pick a monarch at that
@barbarindian | November 11, 2009 07:57 PM -
plan to read new thesis on justice from Amartya Sen - http://bit.ly/QYllg
@roslw | November 11, 2009 04:53 PM -
@realpreityzinta is tarun khanna ur proffessor in harvard or did u met prof amartya sen , harvard is a dream
@mythicmanthan | November 11, 2009 01:01 PM -
Amartya Sen at the LSE 20th November: http://bit.ly/2OMF2L tiks available soon
@djohanrady | November 11, 2009 11:10 AM
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