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| complete name: |
Amartya Sen |
| nobel prize: |
economics |
| award year: |
1998 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| given name: |
Amartya |
| family name: |
Sen |
| occupation: |
writer |
| occupation: |
economist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
philosopher |
| field of work: |
development economics |
| work location: |
Harvard University, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America |
| description: |
Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher of Bengali ethnicity, who since 1972 has 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, 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 and Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. He was also awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize in recognition of his work on welfare economics in February 2015 during a reception at the Royal Academy in the UK. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He served as the chancellor of Nalanda University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, a distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he served as Master from 1998 to 2004. |
| pronunciation: |
(pronounced /ˈɔmort:o ˈʃen/) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1998/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1933 |
| usual name: |
Amartya Sen |
