Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
	Sen in 2012
Born	Amartya Kumar Sen; 3 November 1933; Santiniketan, Bengal, British India
Spouses	; Nabaneeta Dev (m. 1958; div. 1976) Eva Colorni (m. 1978; died 1985) Emma Rothschild (m. 1991)
Children	4, including Nandana and Antara
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998); Bharat Ratna (1999); National Humanities Medal (2011); Johan Skytte Prize (2017);
Academic background
Education	Presidency College, Calcutta (BA); Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD);
Doctoral advisor	Joan Robinson
Influences	Gautama Buddha; Adam Smith; John Rawls; John Maynard Keynes; B. R. Ambedkar; Kenneth Arrow; Piero Sraffa; Maurice Dobb; Mary Wollstonecraft; Karl Marx;
Academic work
Discipline	Economics; philosophy;
Sub-discipline	Welfare economics; development economics;
School or tradition	Capability approach
Institutions	Jadavpur University; Trinity College, Cambridge; Delhi University; London School of Economics; Nuffield College, Oxford; All Souls College, Oxford; Harvard University;
Doctoral students	Ravi Kanbur; Felicia Knaul; Prasanta Pattanaik; Ingrid Robeyns;
Notable works	Development as Freedom (1999); The Idea of Justice (2009);
Notable ideas	Capability approach; human development theory; entitlement approach to famine;
Influenced	Sabina Alkire; Jean-Louis Arcand; Tim Besley; Jean Drèze; Robin Hahnel; Inge Kaul; M. A. Oommen; Thomas Piketty; Max Roser; Lars Pålsson Syll;

Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics.^[6] He has also made major scholarly contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries.

Sen is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University.^[7] He previously served as Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.^[8] In 1999, he received 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.

^ Sen, Amartya (2010). The Idea of Justice. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141037851.
^ Deneulin, Séverine (2009). "Book Reviews: Intellectual Roots of Amartya Sen: Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 10 (2): 305–306. doi:10.1080/19452820902941628. S2CID 216114489.
^ Kanbur, Ravi (July 2009). "Amartya Sen: A Personal Appreciation". Yumpu.
^ Bandyopadhyay, Taradas; Xu, Yongsheng (2021). "Prasanta K. Pattanaik". In Fleurbaey, Marc; Salles, Maurice (eds.). Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory. Vol. 1. Springer. pp. 243–258.
^ Nayak, Purusottam (2000). "Understanding the Entitlement Approach to Famine". Journal of Assam University. 5: 60–65.
^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ "University Professorships". Harvard University. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
^ "The Master of Trinity". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

[Sen_2010-1] Sen, Amartya (2010). The Idea of Justice. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141037851.

[2] Deneulin, Séverine (2009). "Book Reviews: Intellectual Roots of Amartya Sen: Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 10 (2): 305–306. doi:10.1080/19452820902941628. S2CID 216114489.

[3] Kanbur, Ravi (July 2009). "Amartya Sen: A Personal Appreciation". Yumpu.

[4] Bandyopadhyay, Taradas; Xu, Yongsheng (2021). "Prasanta K. Pattanaik". In Fleurbaey, Marc; Salles, Maurice (eds.). Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory. Vol. 1. Springer. pp. 243–258.

[5] Nayak, Purusottam (2000). "Understanding the Entitlement Approach to Famine". Journal of Assam University. 5: 60–65.

[6] "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

[Sen_Harvard_DP-7] "University Professorships". Harvard University. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

[Trinity_Cambridge-8] "The Master of Trinity". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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