Amartya Sen Biography and Works.

Born on November 3, 1933, Amartya Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory.

He is also known for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members. Amartya Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of food shortage.

Currently the Professor of Thomas W Lamont University and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at the Harvard University, he is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is also a distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sen is the first Indian and the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge College.

Amartya Sen’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages over a period of 40 years. Sen is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

The Time magazine listed him under ’60 years of Asian Heroes’ in 2006 and in 2010 included him in their ‘100 most influential persons in the world’.

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He has not only been into lists of the Time magazine but has also featured in the lists of New Statesman. The New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of the ‘World’s 50 Most Influential People Who Matter’.