Five books written by the renowned Indian economist and philosopher, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. Learn about the life and achievements of Amartya Sen , the first Asian Nobel laureate in economics and a leading scholar of welfare economics, social choice theory, and global justice. Explore his biography, education, awards, works, and influences on this comprehensive Wikipedia article. 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. Life Amartya Sen was born into a Baidya family in Santiniketan, Bengal, in India. His father was a professor of chemistry in Dhaka (now part of Bangladesh), where Sen also received his first education. After university studies in Kolkata, India and at Cambridge, UK, where Sen received his PhD in 1959, he has held professorships in India and at Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well as in the US, including at Harvard University. Sen is married to Emma Rothschild and has four children from ...
