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Amartya
Sen
Lamont University Professor and
Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Harvard University
Amartya Sen
is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric
Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic
Association, and the International Economic Association. He was
formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor.
Born in Santiniketan, India, Sen studied at Presidency College in
Calcutta, India, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an Indian
citizen. He was Lamont University Professor at Harvard also earlier,
from 1988 to 1998, and previous to that he was the Drummond Professor
of Political Economy at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls
College. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Delhi University
and at the London School of Economics.
Amartya Sen's
books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and
include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On
Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines
(1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources,
Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics
(1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined
(1992), Development as Freedom (1999), and Rationality
and Freedom (2002), among others. His research has ranged over
a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory,
including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement,
development economics, moral and political philosophy, and the economics
of peace and war. His next book, The Argumentative Indian,
will be published in June 2005 by Penguin Books in London, and this
will be followed by a book to be published by Norton in 2006, called
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
Amartya Sen
has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North
America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a Fellow of the British
Academy, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Among the awards he has received are the "Bharat Ratna" (the highest
honour awarded by the President of India); the Senator Giovanni
Agnelli International Prize in Ethics; the Alan Shawn Feinstein
World Hunger Award; the Edinburgh Medal; the Brazilian Ordem do
Merito Cientifico (Gră-Cruz); the Presidency of the Italian Republic
Medal; the Eisenhower Medal; Honorary Companion of Honour (U.K.);
and the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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