Who is Amartya Sen?

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            Amartya Kumar Sen is the 1998 Nobel prize-winner in economics. He is a well-known economic theorist whose works link ethical questions with economic issues.



            Sen was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal. In 1956, at the age of 23, he was appointed as the Professor and head of the Economics Department at the Jadavpur University, Calcutta.



            After two years, he went to Cambridge University to pursue his Ph.D In 1959; he submitted his Ph.D thesis titled ‘the choice of techniques’, after which he was a visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



            From 1961 to 1972, he was a Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, after which he was a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Since 1972, had taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States.



            Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice and economic theories of famines.



            In 1999, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna, which is the highest civilian award in India.











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