Amartya Sen was born on 3rd November in 1933 in Santiniketan. The greatest achievement of the economist is winning the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. He taught in many universities in India and abroad.
Amartya Sen’s family originally belongs to Dhaka in Bangladesh. His father was Ashutosh Sen, a chemistry teacher in Dhaka University. His mother Amita Sen studied in Santiniketan. Amita Sen’s father Kshiti Mohan Sen taught Sanskrit in Santiniketan.
Amartya Sen, after completing his studies in Visva- Bharati in Santiniketan, went to Calcutta to study in Presidency College. His academic session in the college was from 1951 to 53. Then he went to Cambridge to study in Trinity College. There he had to study B.A. for a second time, but this time in pure economics.
Sen in his teaching career has been associated with a number of universities. In India, he taught at the Delhi University and Jadavpur University. He also joined Oxford University, London School of Economics and Harvard University. Amartya Sen also took classes at Cornell, Berkeley and Stanford for a brief period.
Only at the young age of about 23 years, Amartya Sen was assigned to take responsibility of the economics department of Jadavpur
University.
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At this university of Kolkata he met Anita Banerji, Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri and Ajit Dasgupta as his colleagues of the same department.
Amartya Sen the Nobel laureate, conducted his researches in gender equity, basic health and literacy. His works can be associated with “Welfare Economics”. He also worked on poverty where his main concern is economic development. Though he is a student of economics, yet he is associates many of the theories with philosophical explanations. He had the opportunity to work with Isaiah Berlin, Derek Parfit, Robert Nozick, Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls and many renowned philosophers.
Some of the noted works of Amartya Sen are:
- "East and West: The Reach of Reason" (2000)
- "Informational Bases of Alternative Welfare Approaches" (1974)
- "On Optimizing the Rate of Saving" (1961)
- "A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions" (1966)
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)
- "Liberty, Unanimity and Rights" (1976)
- "Utilitarianism and Welfare" (1979)
- "Social Choice Theory" (1986)
- "Markets and Freedom" (1993)
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