Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries.

Date of birth:
3rd November, 1933
"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
― Amartya Sen
Topic(s): Teacher
"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
― Amartya Sen
Topic(s): Health

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