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Amartya Sen The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 Born: 3 November 1933, Santiniketan, India
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures / The Nobel Prizes. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate.
Amartya Kumar Sen ( Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. [5]
Oct 1, 1998 · Sen, Lamont University Professor Emeritus and a current adjunct and visiting professor at Harvard, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics Wednesday “for his contributions to welfare economics.” He is Harvard’s 37th Nobel laureate. Sen, 64, has done extensive work on the economics of poverty.
Jun 30, 2024 · Amartya Sen (born November 3, 1933, Santiniketan, India) is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.
Oct 14, 1998 · 14 October 1998 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1998 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to Professor Amartya Sen, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. (citizen of India) for his contributions to welfare economics.
Jun 3, 2021 · Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.
Nov 30, 1999 · Amartya Sen becomes the sixth Indian to win the Nobel Prize and the first Asian for the coveted award in economics. The celebrated champion of the underprivileged successfully pushes his cause into world recognition in an era in which the market, rather than welfare, has dominated global practice.
Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, restoring an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE from 1971 to 1977, and he continued to teach part-time at the School from 1978 to 1982.
May 27, 2021 · Amartya Sen receives a Nobel Prize that is long overdue - for his contributions to welfare economics and, among other things, for restoring "an ethical dimension to the discussion of vital...
