Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. He has worked in India, the United Kingdom and the United States.
He was born on November 3rd, 1933, to a Bengali family of Santiniketan in West Bengal. He is the second Indian after Rabindranath Tagore to receive a Nobel Prize.
Sen’s first book ‘Collective Choice and Social Welfare’ was launched around 1970. This book was considered to be one of the most influential monographs that speak about the issue of primary welfare, justice, equality and individual rights.
His publication ‘Development as freedom’ got the recognition of the Nobel Prize committee. In 1992 he came up with his book ‘Inequality Re-examined’ which covered all the important themes of his work. In 1998 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contribution to ‘Welfare Economics’. He also won the Bharat Ratna award IN 1999, the highest civilian award in India and the National Humanities Medal ward in 2011.
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