Amartya Sen

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November 03, 1933 in Shantiniketan, India

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Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Sen was best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from the years 1998 to 2004. He is the first Asian and the firs...more

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Sen is sure about his approach towards the multi-faceted nature of poverty, but the authorities who are entrusted with the task of alleviating it seem baffled. Though committee after committee has been formed to define the poor, there is yet to be a ...

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Books by Amartya Sen

Average rating: 3.89 · 2,940 ratings · 284 reviews · 90 distinct works

	Development as Freedom 4.03 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity 3.72 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny 3.83 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Idea Of Justice by Amartya Sen, Professor Amartya Sen 3.90 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation 4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen, John M. Letiche (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Inequality Reexamined 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Rationality and Freedom 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Amartya Sen and Jean Dr Ze Omnibus: (Comprising) Poverty and Famines; Hunger and Public Action; India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity by Amartya Sen, Jean Drèze 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Commodities and Capabilities 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”
― Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

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“While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection”
― Amartya Sen

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“A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.”
― Amartya Sen

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