page_title: Amartya Sen
hierarchical_section_title: Amartya Sen
caption_attribution_description: Professor of Economics 1971-1977, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 1998 IMAGELIBRARY/1143 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&amp;a...
context_page_description: Amartya Kumar Sen CH is an Indian economist, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries.
  He is currently Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and India's Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics.
context_section_description: Amartya Kumar Sen CH ([ˈɔmort:o ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries.
  He is currently Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.  He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and India's Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics.
caption: Sen in 2000
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