Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen He was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, in 1933.
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His parents were from Dhaka (in present days Bangladesh).
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Santiniketan
They moved to West bengal during the Partition of India.
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Education He Began his high school education at St. Gregory’s school in Dhaka in 1941.
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He studied at Visva-Bharati University and Presidency college, earning a BA in economics in 1953.
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He moved to Trinity Collegue, Cambridge, where he earned a BA in economics in 1956.
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First achievements He met to Pasantra Mahalanobis.
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He became founding Head of Department of Economics at Jadaypur university.
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Sen returned to Cambridge in 1959 to complete his PhD.
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He decided to study philosophy.
Nobel prize He has served as president of International Economic Association, American Economic Association, Econometric Society, among others.
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He received the Adam Smith Prize, was awarded honorary fellowship by the Institute of Social studies; he received the “Bharat Ratna” by the president of India.
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In 1998 He received the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences for his work in welfare economics.
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Personal life Sen’ first wife was Nabaneeta Dev Sen, an Indian writer and scholar, with whom he had two children: Antara and Nandana.
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In 1973 he married with Eva Colorni, who died in 1985. They had two children, Indrani and Kabir.
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In 1991 Sen married Emma Georgina Rothschild.
Main contributions ●
Social Welfare
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Social choice theory
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Capabilities and functioning approach
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Human development research
Main works The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and famines in particular. Sen develops an alternative method of analysis which concentrates on ownership and exchange.
Main works Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies.
Main works Even if people living in the Third world are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism.
Pratichi trust
The Pratichi (India) Trust and the Pratichi Institute work for greater equity and efficiency in the areas of education and health, with a special emphasis on gender equality. It has worked primarily in West Bengal.