Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (Bengali : অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন, Ômorto Kumar Shen) (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge . He is known "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism. He is a distinguished economist-philosopher who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in the year 1998 for his work on welfare economics. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, becoming the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is also a former honorary president of Oxfam. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. As of 2009 he has received over 80 honorary doctorates from several world renowned universities worldwide. (via Wikipedia)

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About Amartya Sen

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Name: Sen, Amartya Kumar
Amartya Kumar Sen
অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন
অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন (Bengali); Ômorto Kumar Shen (alternate transliteration)

Birthplace: Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

Field: Welfare economics

Influenced By: John Rawls

Birth Date: Nov 3, 1933

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