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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
AMARTYA K. SEN
Amartya Sen is Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, and Lamont University
Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He has served as President of the Econometric
Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the
International Economic Association. He is also Honorary President of OXFAM.
Born in Santiniketan, India, in 1933, Amartya Sen studied at Presidency College in
Calcutta, India, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hc is an Indian citizen. Before
joining Harvard in 1987, he was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford
University in England and a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford from 1980, and
Professor of Economics at Oxford in the 1977-80 period. Between 1971 and 1977, he
was Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Prior to that he was
Professor of Economics at Delhi University.
Professor Sen has published a number of books as well as articles in various journals of
economics, philosophy, politics and decision theory. His books have been translated into
many languages and include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic
Inequality (1973, 1997), On Ethics and Economics (1987), Choice, Welfare and
Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), The Standard of
Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), and Development as Freedom (1999),
among others.
His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics and philosophy, including
social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurcment, development
economics, and moral and political philosophy. He has a forthcoming book, Freedom,
Rationality and Social Choice. He is currently working on the rationality of choice and
behaviour, and also on objectivity of knowledge.
He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society, as well as a
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has
received honorary doctorates (more than forty) from major universities in North America,
Europe and Asia. Sen has received various honours, including the "Bharat Ratna" (the
highest honour awarded by the President of India). Among the awards he has received
are the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, the Senator
Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics, the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger
Award, the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, the Edinburgh Medal, and the Nobel
Prize in Economics.
February 2000
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