Amartya Kumar Sen

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Sen in 2012
Born
Amartya Kumar Sen

(1933-11-03) 3 November 1933 (age 88)
Shantiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Birbhum, West Bengal, India)
Spouse(s)
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
(m. 1958; div. 1976)

Eva Colorni
(m. 1978; died 1985)

Emma Rothschild
(after 1991)
Institutions
List
  • Harvard University
    University of Cambridge
    London School of Economics
    Jadavpur University
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cornell University
    University of Oxford
    Delhi School of Economics
    University of California, Berkeley
FieldWelfare economics
Social choice theory
Development economics
School or
tradition
Capability approach
Alma mater
  • University of Calcutta (BA)
  • Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
InfluencesGautama Buddha, Adam Smith, John Rawls, John Maynard Keynes, B. R. Ambedkar, Kenneth Arrow, Piero Sraffa, Maurice Dobb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx
ContributionsHuman development theory
Entitlement approach to famine
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998)
Bharat Ratna (1999)
National Humanities Medal (2012)
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2017)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc