amartya sen a great "thinker"
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist and a Nobel laureate.
He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries.
He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.
Sen was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, to Ashutosh Sen and his wife Amita.
Rabindranath Tagore is said to have given Amartya Sen his name (Bengali অমর্ত্য ômorto, lit. "immortal").
Between 1960 and 1961, Sen was a visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has taught economics also at the University of Calcutta and at the Delhi School of Economics (where he completed his magnum opus Collective Choice and Social Welfare in 1970), where he was a Professor from 1961 to 1972, a period which is considered to be a Golden Period in the history of DSE.
In 1972, he joined the London School of Economics as a Professor of Economics where he taught until 1977.
From 1977 to 1986 he taught at the University of Oxford, where he was first a Professor of Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford and then the Drummond Professor of Political Economy and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1986, he joined Harvard as the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor of Economics.
Sen's contribution to the literature was to show under what conditions Arrow's impossibility theorem[ would indeed come to pass as well as to extend and enrich the theory of social choice, informed by his interests in history of economic thought and philosophy.
In 1981, Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food.
Sen also argued that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up.
As a nine-year-old boy, he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943, in which three million people perished.
He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries.
He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.
Sen was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, to Ashutosh Sen and his wife Amita.
Rabindranath Tagore is said to have given Amartya Sen his name (Bengali অমর্ত্য ômorto, lit. "immortal").
Between 1960 and 1961, Sen was a visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has taught economics also at the University of Calcutta and at the Delhi School of Economics (where he completed his magnum opus Collective Choice and Social Welfare in 1970), where he was a Professor from 1961 to 1972, a period which is considered to be a Golden Period in the history of DSE.
In 1972, he joined the London School of Economics as a Professor of Economics where he taught until 1977.
From 1977 to 1986 he taught at the University of Oxford, where he was first a Professor of Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford and then the Drummond Professor of Political Economy and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1986, he joined Harvard as the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor of Economics.
Sen's contribution to the literature was to show under what conditions Arrow's impossibility theorem[ would indeed come to pass as well as to extend and enrich the theory of social choice, informed by his interests in history of economic thought and philosophy.
In 1981, Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food.
Sen also argued that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up.
As a nine-year-old boy, he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943, in which three million people perished.
achivements of amartya sen
Sen has received over 90 honorary degrees from universities around the world.
· 1954 He received the Adam Smith Prize.
· 1981: He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
· 1982: He was awarded honorary fellowship by the Institute of Social Studies.
· 1998: He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in welfare economics.
· 1999: He received the Bharat Ratna 'the highest civilian award in India' by the President of India.
· 1999: He was offered the honorary citizenship of Bangladesh by Sheikh Hasina in recognition of his achievements in winning the Nobel Prize, and given that his ancestral origins were in what has become the modern state of Bangladesh
· 2000: He was awarded the order of Companion of Honour, UK.
· 2000: He received Leontief Prize for his outstanding contribution to economic theory from the Global Development and Environment Institute.
· 2000: He was awarded the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service USA;
· 2000: He was the 351st Commencement Speaker of Harvard University.
· 2002: He received the International Humanist Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
· 2003: He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
· He is awarded the Life Time Achievement award by Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
· 2005: Honorary degree, University of Pavia.
· 2010: He was chosen to deliver the Demos Annual Lecture 2010
· 2011: The National Humanities Medal was given to Sen
· 2012: Sash in a special category Order of the Aztec Eagle.
· 2013: He was made a Commander of the French Legion of Honour.
· 2013: The 25 Greatest Global Living Legends In India by NDTV.
· 1954 He received the Adam Smith Prize.
· 1981: He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
· 1982: He was awarded honorary fellowship by the Institute of Social Studies.
· 1998: He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in welfare economics.
· 1999: He received the Bharat Ratna 'the highest civilian award in India' by the President of India.
· 1999: He was offered the honorary citizenship of Bangladesh by Sheikh Hasina in recognition of his achievements in winning the Nobel Prize, and given that his ancestral origins were in what has become the modern state of Bangladesh
· 2000: He was awarded the order of Companion of Honour, UK.
· 2000: He received Leontief Prize for his outstanding contribution to economic theory from the Global Development and Environment Institute.
· 2000: He was awarded the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service USA;
· 2000: He was the 351st Commencement Speaker of Harvard University.
· 2002: He received the International Humanist Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
· 2003: He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
· He is awarded the Life Time Achievement award by Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
· 2005: Honorary degree, University of Pavia.
· 2010: He was chosen to deliver the Demos Annual Lecture 2010
· 2011: The National Humanities Medal was given to Sen
· 2012: Sash in a special category Order of the Aztec Eagle.
· 2013: He was made a Commander of the French Legion of Honour.
· 2013: The 25 Greatest Global Living Legends In India by NDTV.