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Amartya Sen
Economist
Nobel laureate in 1998
Biography
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University (USA). Previously he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (UK). Amartya Sen's research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy and decision theory, including social choice theory and welfare economics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. He has also worked on development economics, measurement theory and political philosophy.
He is past President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, and the International Economic Association. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (the highest honour awarded by the President of India), the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz), the Presidency of the Italian Republic Medal, the Eisenhower Medal, the George Marshall Medal and Honorary Companion of Honour (UK).
His publications include:
Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)
Poverty and Famines. An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981)
Inequality Reexamined (1992)
Resources, Values and Development (1984)
Development as Freedom (1999)
Rationality and Freedom (2002)
The argumentative India (2005)
Identity and Violence (2006)