Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen
	Sen in 2000
Born	Amartya Kumar Sen; 3 November 1933 (age 91); Shantiniketan, Breetish India (present-day Wast Bengal)
Naitionality	Indian
Hauf-marrae(s)	Nabaneeta Dev (1958–1976); Eva Colorni (1978–1985); Emma Rothschild (m. 1991)
Institution	Leet Harvard Varsity; Varsity o Cambridge; London School of Economics; Jadavpur Varsity; Massachusetts Institute o Technology; Cornell Varsity; Varsity o Oxford; Delhi School of Economics; Varsity o Calcutta; Varsity o Californie, Berkeley; Stanford Varsity; Nalanda Varsity ;
Field	Welfare economics, development economics, ethics
Schuil or; tradeetion	Capability approach
Alma mater	Presidency College of the Varsity o Calcutta (BA),; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Influences	Leet Rabindranath Tagore; B. R. Ambedkar; John Maynard Keynes; John Rawls; Peter Bauer; John Stuart Mill; Mary Wollstonecraft; Kenneth Arrow; Piero Sraffa; Adam Smith; Karl Marx; Martha Nussbaum ;
Influenced	Leet Tony Atkinson; Kaushik Basu; Jean Drèze; Esther Duflo; Ben Fine; Nancy Folbre; Robin Hahnel; Mahbub ul Haq; Martha Nussbaum; Prasanta Pattanaik; Kotaro Suzumura; Philip Pettit; Ha-Joon Chang ;
Contreibutions	Human development theory
Awairds	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998); Bharat Ratna (1999); Naitional Humanities Medal (2012)
	Information at IDEAS / RePEc
	Amartya Sen's voice from the BBC programme Start the Week, 7 January 2013

Amartya Kumar Sen (pronounced ˈɔmort:o ˈʃen; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist an filosofer o Bengali ethnicity, wha syne 1972 haes taucht an wirked in the Unitit Kinrick an the Unitit States. Sen haes made contreibutions tae welfare economics, social chyce theory, economic an social juistice, economic theories o faimins, an indexes o the meisur o well-bein o ceetizens o developin kintras. He wis awairdit the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 an Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his wirk in welfare economics.

References

↑ Sen, Amartya (2010). The idea of justice. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141037851.
↑ Deneulin, Séverine (2009). "Book reviews: Intellectual roots of Amartya Sen: Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Taylor and Francis. 10 (2): 305–306. doi:10.1080/19452820902941628.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
↑ "President Obama Awards 2011 National Humanities Medals". National Endowment for the Humanities. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 16 Juin 2014.

[Sen_2010-1] Sen, Amartya (2010). The idea of justice. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141037851.

[2] Deneulin, Séverine (2009). "Book reviews: Intellectual roots of Amartya Sen: Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Taylor and Francis. 10 (2): 305–306. doi:10.1080/19452820902941628.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

[US_National_Medal_Sen-3] "President Obama Awards 2011 National Humanities Medals". National Endowment for the Humanities. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 16 Juin 2014.

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