Background
SEN, Amartya Kumar was born in 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal, India.
SEN, Amartya Kumar was born in 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal, India.
Bachelor of Arts Calcutta University, 1953. Bachelor of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1955, 1959. Honorary DLitt Visva-Bharati University, India, 1982.
Honorary Doctor of Science University Bath, 1963. Honorary DU University Essex, 1983.
Tagore's school was a co-educational school, with many progressive features. The emphasis was on fostering curiosity rather than competitive excellence, and any kind of interest in examination performance and grades was severely discouraged.
By the time Sen arrived in Calcutta to study at Presidency College, he had a fairly formed attitude on cultural identity (including an understanding of its inescapable plurality as well as the need for unobstructed absorption rather than sectarian denial). In 1953, Sen moved from Calcutta to Cambridge, to study at Trinity College. Though he had already obtained a B.A. from Calcutta University (with economics major and mathematics minor), Cambridge enroled him for another B.A. (in pure economics) to be quickly done in two years (this was fair enough since Sen was still in my late teens when he arrived at Cambridge). The style of economics at the-then Cambridge was much less mathematical than in Calcutta. The major debates in political economy in Cambridge were rather firmly geared to the pros and cons of Keynesian economics and the diverse contributions of Keynes's followers at Cambridge.
Amartya Sen is known as "the Mother Teresa of Economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, and the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism. Sen has received many honorary degrees (over 90) from universities around the world, including from the following:
Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Williams College, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Santa Clara , niversity , Tulane University, New School for Social Research, Oberlin College, Syracuse , niversityUniversity of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Bard CollegeClark University, Mount Holyoke College, Simmons College, Brandeis University, University of Delhi, University of Kerala, University of , umbai, University of Calcutta, University of North Bengal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia , slamia University, Allahabad University, Visva-Bharati University, Jadavpur University, Chhatrapati Shahu i Maharaj University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, University of Kalyani, Rabindra Bharati University, Assam Agricultural University, Assam University, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, McGill University, Queen's University, University of Saskatchewan, University of Essex, University of Bath, University of Caen, University of Bologna, Université catholique de Louvain, London Guildhall , University, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of Valencia, University of Zurich, University of Tokyo, University of Antwerp, University of Kiel, University of Padua, University of Leicester, University of Valencia, University of Zurich, Stockholm University, University of East Anglia, University of , ottingham, University of the Mediterranean, Heriot-Watt University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Florence, University of London, Technical University of Lisbon, Jaume I University, Durham , niversity, University of Southampton, Pierre Mendès-France University, Ritsumeikan University, University of Sussex, University of York, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, University of Natal, Rhodes University, Koç University, York University, University of Göttingen, University of Cape , own, University of the Witwatersrand, Sorbonne, University College Dublin, University of Osnabrück, University of Exeter, University of Dhaka, University of Birmingham, Rovira i Virgili University, University of Pavia, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Coimbra.
President, The Econometric Society, 1984
President, The International Economic Association, 1986-89
President, The Indian Economic Association, 1989
President, The American Economic Association, 1994
President, The Development Studies Association, 1980-82
Honorary President, The International Economic Association, since 1989
Honorary President, Oxfam, 2000-02; Honorary Advisor, 2002-
Chairman, Commonwealth Commission, On Respect and Understanding, 2007-08
Adviser to the Mentor Group of Presidency College 2011
The first chancellor of the proposed Nalanda University (NU) 2012
Inequality Reexamined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992
The Quality of Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993
Development as Freedom, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999 Review
Rationality and Freedom, Harvard, Harvard Belknap Press, 2002
The Argumentative Indian, London: Allen Lane, 2005.
Identity and Violence. The Illusion of Destiny New York W&W Norton.
Collective Choice and Social Welfare, San Francisco, Holden-Day, 1970
On Economic Inequality, New York, Norton, 1973
, Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982
Choice, Welfare and Measurement, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982
Food Economics and Entitlements, Helsinki, Wider Working Paper 1, 1986
On Ethics and Economics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987
Hunger and Public Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989 (with Jean Drèze)
More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing. New York Review of Books, 1990.
In some ways people had got used to the idea that India was spiritual and religion-oriented. That gave a leg up to the religious interpretation of India, despite the fact that Sanskrit had a larger atheistic literature than what exists in any other classical language. Madhava Acharya, the remarkable 14th century philosopher, wrote this rather great book called Sarvadarshansamgraha, which discussed all the religious schools of thought within the Hindu structure. The first chapter is "Atheism" – a very strong presentation of the argument in favor of atheism and materialism
claims Hinduism as a political entity
Works in welfare economics and social choice theory, particularly in expanding their informational bases, incorporating considerations of liberty and rights, and exploring problems of collective rationality. Contributions to methods and techniques of economic measurement, particularly of real national income, poverty, inequality and unemployment. Exploration of the analytic foundations of rational choice and of the behavioural bases of economic theory.
Contributions to the choice of technology in developing countries, and to methods of shadow pricing and cost-benefit analysis. Developing a theory of the causation of famines, focussing on entitlement relations and general economic interdependence rather than just on food supply, and application to particular famines in Asia and Africa.
