▪️Full name: Amartya Kumar Sen (1933)
🏫Education:
B.A. in Economics with a minor in mathematics (Presidency University, Kolkata)
B.A. in Economics (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Ph.D. in Economics (Trinity College, Cambridge)
▪️Position:
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University (1989-present)
Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University (1980-1988)
Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics
▪️Field: Welfare Economics, Development Economics, Social Choice Theory
📝Top 3 Papers:
Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement (Econometrica)
Equality of What? (The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, Cambridge University Press)
Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory (Philosophy & Public Affairs, Wiley)
🎧Podcast:
Amartya Sen on justice and injustice (The Amartya Sen Interviews)
Amartya Sen on identity and globalization (The Prospect Podcast)
📽Presentation:
Amartya Sen: Home in the World (Commonwealth Club of California)
Prannoy Roy Interviews Amartya Sen On Nobel Laureate’s Memoir (NDTV)
The Amartya Sen Lecture 2014 (LSE)
👩🎓Famous Students:
Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University)
Kaushik Basu (Cornell University)
🏆Honors & Awards:
Thomas C. Schelling Award, Harvard University (2012)
National Humanities Medal, USA (2012)
United Nations Life Time Achievement Award, UNESCAP ( 2007)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (1998)
Honorary D. Litt., Columbia University, USA (1998)
Honorary President, The International Economic Association (1989- Present)
Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa, Oxford University, UK (1996)
Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa, Georgetown University, USA, (1989)
Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy (1986)
Edinburgh Medal (1977)
📚Top Books:
On Economic Inequality (Clarendon Press)
The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press)
Development as Freedom (Oxford University Press)
Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation (Oxford University Press)
Inequality reexamined (Harvard University Press)
Collective Choice and Social Welfare (Harvard University Press)
Image credit:
1- Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard file photo
2-Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard file photo
3-Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard file photo
