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Amartya Sen

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Also known as Amartya Kumar Sen, Professor Amartya Kumar Sen

Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)

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Amartya Sen is a male economist, university teacher, philosopher, and writer born on 3 November 1933 in Santiniketan. He holds citizenship in the British Raj, Dominion of India, India, and the United Kingdom. Sen works in the field of development economics and speaks English and Bangla. He is an atheist and has been active since at least 2019.

He has been employed by Harvard University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Jadavpur University, and the University of Delhi. Sen was educated at the University of Calcutta, Trinity College, Visva-Bharati University, and the University of Cambridge. His doctoral advisor was Joan Robinson, and his doctoral student is Kaushik Basu. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and Econometric Society.

Sen has written 227 works, including *Wars and famines*, *Sustainable human development*, and *Gender and cooperative conflicts*. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Economics collection. He has one Nobel Prize. His spouse is Emma Georgina Rothschild, and he has children Antara Dev Sen and Nandana Sen.

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Person · Open Library

Born
3 November 1933
Works
227

Top works

  • Wars and famines
  • 项目评价准则
  • Sustainable human development
  • Gender and cooperative conflicts
  • Africa and India

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
1999
Active to
2013

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
112
Total plays
196

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Matrix Elasticity Directs Stem Cell Lineage Specification

    · 2006 · cited 12,515x

  2. Estimates of the Regression Coefficient Based on Kendall's Tau

    · 1968 · cited 12,287x

  3. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,658x

  4. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    · 2017 · cited 5,578x

  5. Tisagenlecleucel in Children and Young Adults with B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia

    · 2018 · cited 5,188x

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Quotes

  • “"Where is the railway station?" he asks me. "There," I say, pointing at the post office, "and would you please post this letter for me on the way?" "Yes," he says, determined to open the envelope and check whether it contains something valuable.”
  • “The behavioral foundations of capitalism do, of course, continue to engage attention, and the pursuit of self-interest still occupies a central position in theories about the workings and successes of capitalism. But in these recent theories, interests are given a rather different—and much more "positive"—role in promoting efficient allocation of resources through informational economy as well as the smooth working of incentives, rather than the negative role of blocking harmful passions.”
  • “I personally have great skepticism about the theories extolling the wonders of "Asian values." They are often based on badly researched generalizations and frequently uttered by governmental spokesmen countering accusations of authoritarianism and violations of human rights (as happened spectacularly at the in Vienna in 1993).”
  • “People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race seemed to give way — quite suddenly — to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.”
  • “The position of welfare economics in modern economic theory has been a rather precarious one. In classical political economy there were no sharp boundaries drawn between welfare economic analysis and other types of economic investigation. But as the suspicion of the use of ethics in economics has grown, welfare economics has appeared to be increasingly dubious, It has been put into an arbitrarily narrow box, separated from the rest of economics.”
  • “The impoverishment of economics related to its distancing from ethics affects both welfare economics (narrowing its reach and relevance) and predictive economics (weakening its behavioural foundations).”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1998

    “for his contributions to welfare economics”

NobelPrize.org →

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Encyclopedic overview

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, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He has also made major 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. He previously served as master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. 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.

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