Amartaya Sen

NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS

Presented By:
Nikita Jain
Amartya Sen
An Indian Economist
Born on 3rd November 1933
A Nobel Prize Winner-awarded in 1998 in Economic Sciences
Also known as “Mother Teresa of Economics”
And has worked on:

1. “WELFARE ECONOMICS”,
2. “HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THEORY”,
3. “FAMINE”,
4. “THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF POVERTY”
5. “GENDER INEQUALITY”
6. “POLITICAL LIBERALISM”
 He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from 1998 to 2004.
He is the first Asian and the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college.He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2006, Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes"[4] and in 2010 included him in their "100
most influential persons in the world".[5] New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of 'World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter’

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS

He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and

Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
 He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows,
distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master
from 1998 to 2004.
He is the first Asian and the first Indian academic to head an
Oxbridge college.
He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2006,
Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes” and in
2010 included him in their "100 most influential persons in the
world". New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of 'World's
50 Most Influential People Who Matter’
Academic achievements,
awards and honors
1998: He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
for his work in welfare economics.
1999: He received the Bharat Ratna 'the highest civilian award in
India' by the President of India.
1999: He was offered the honorary citizenship of Bangladesh by
Sheikh Hasina in recognition of his achievements in winning the
Nobel Prize, and given that his ancestral origins were in what has
become the modern state of Bangladesh
2000: He was awarded the order of Companion of Honour, UK.
2000: He received Leontief Prize for his outstanding contribution
to economic theory from the Global Development and Environment
Institute.
2000: He was awarded the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and
Service USA;
2000: He was the 351st Commencement Speaker of Harvard
University.
2002: He received the International Humanist Award from the
International Humanist and Ethical Union.
2003: He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the
Indian Chamber of Commerce[which?].
He is awarded the Life Time Achievement award by Bangkok-
based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
2010: He was chosen to deliver the Demos Annual Lecture 2010
WORKS OF AMARTYA SEN
Choice of Tecniques,1960
An Aspect of Indian Agriculture
The Argumentative Indian
Commodities and Capabilities
Growth Economics
Identity and violence :The Illusion of Destiny
Collective Choice and social Welfare
On Economic Inequality
Poverty And Famines :An Essay on Entitlement And
Deprivation ,1981
Choice ,Welfare and Measurement
Food ,Economics and entitlement
And many more…….