| Name(s) |
AMARTYA Kumar SEN |
| Date of
Birth |
November 03, 1933 |
|
Identity |
Indian economist
and philosopher of Bengali ethnicity |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1972: Ever since this year,
he has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the
United States.
- October 14, 1998: He was awarded the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- 1998 to 2004: He is the Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he served as Master during this
period.
- 1999: He was awarded BHARAT RATNA Award
for his work in welfare economics.
- 2012: He is also a
recipient of the National Humanities Medal for this year.
- July 2012: He was named the
first Chancellor of the proposed Nalanda University.
- February 2015: He was also
awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes
Prize in recognition of his work on welfare economics during
a reception at the Royal Academy in the UK.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He has made contributions to welfare economics, social
choice theory, economic and social justice, economic
theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of
well-being of citizens of developing countries.
- He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University
Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at
Harvard University.
- He served as the chancellor of Nalanda University.
- He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of
Fellows, a distinguished fellow of All Souls College,
Oxford, and an honorary fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
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