Amartya Sen
অমর্ত্য সেন
Sen in 2012
Born	(1933-11-03) November 3, 1933 (age 91) Shantiniketan, then-British India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Presidency College of the University of Calcutta (BA), Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Spouse(s)	Nabaneeta Dev (1958–1976) Eva Colorni (1978–1985) Emma Rothschild (m. 1991)
Children	Nandana Sen
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) Bharat Ratna (1999) National Humanities Medal (2012)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Welfare economics, development economics, ethics
Influences	List Rabindranath Tagore B. R. Ambedkar John Maynard Keynes John Rawls Peter Bauer John Stuart Mill Mary Wollstonecraft[2] Kenneth Arrow Piero Sraffa Adam Smith Karl Marx[3] Martha Nussbaum
Influenced	List Tony Atkinson Kaushik Basu Jean Drèze Esther Duflo Ben Fine Nancy Folbre Robin Hahnel Mahbub ul Haq Martha Nussbaum Prasanta Pattanaik Kotaro Suzumura Philip Pettit

Amartya Kumar Sen (born November 3, 1933) is an Indian economist. Since 1956, he has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. He worked in 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 Prize in Economics 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.^[4]

• Forman-Barzilai, Fonna (2012), "Taking a broader view of humanity: an interview with Amartya Sen.", in Browning, Gary; Dimova-Cookson, Maria; Prokhovnik, Raia (eds.), Dialogues with contemporary political theorists, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 170–180, ISBN 9780230303058
• Various (2003). "Special issue, on Amartya Sen". Feminist Economics. 9 (2–3). Taylor and Francis.

• Amartya Sen Archived April 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at Harvard University
• The Possibility of Social Choice 1998 lecture at NobelPrize.org
• Profile and Papers at Research Papers in Economics/RePEc
• Amartya Sen (1933– ). Library of Economics and Liberty (2nd ed.). Liberty Fund. 2008. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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