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Amartya Sen

(1933) Economist India

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Amartya Sen is an economist from India, best known for Development as Freedom.

Quick Facts About Amartya Sen

Born: November 3, 1933
Nationality: India
Profession: Economist
Notable works: Development as Freedom
Spouse: Emma Georgina Rothschild

About Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He has also made major contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Catalonia International Prize Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association Bharat Ratna Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science Meister Eckhart Prize honorary doctorate Honorary Fellow of Bangla Academy

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Grotius Lectures Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit Edinburgh Medal National Humanities Medal Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought Global Economy Prize Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences Adam Smith Prize Bodley Medal Fellow of the British Academy honorary doctor of Waseda University honorary doctor of the University of Valencia honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honorary doctor of the University of Padua honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II honorary doctorate from University of Grenoble-II Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association Fellow of the Econometric Society honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Albert O. Hirschman Prize honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Paris honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp honorary doctor of the University of Miami honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University honorary doctor of Caen University honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Quotes by Amartya Sen

Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what…

Capability

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Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk…

Able

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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been…

Desert sand

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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

Artisans

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I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities…

Commodity

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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Democracy

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To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky…

America

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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Economic

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We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to…

Asks

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“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational…

Education

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One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory…

Aliens

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their…

Economics

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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Born

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If jobs are important, education is important.

Education

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Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable…

Asia

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Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

Deprivation

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Democracy is a universal value

Democracy

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Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

Able

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Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human…

Citizens

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If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make…

Bigger

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China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the…

Children

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The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact…

Considering

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I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

Bigger

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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is…

Bangladesh

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No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.

Country

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Amartya Sen by topic

Education (38) World (33) People (26) Thinking (24) Humans (17) Way (16) Country (16) School (15) Poverty (15) Kind (15) Ifs (15) Opportunity (13) Economic (13) Social (11) India (11)