Philosopher, professor, Author, Economist
Who is called Amartya Sen?
Amartya Sen is a writer, philosopher and an economist. He is a professor of economics and philosophy in the Harvard University. Amartya Sen is currently working at the Harvard University. He is teaching Economics and Philosophy. Apart from that Amartya Sen is also working at Thomas W. Lamont University.
Birth:
Amartya Sen was born in old Dhaka now the capital of Bangladesh. His ancestral home is in Wari. His father name is Ashutosh Sen and he taught chemistry at Dhaka University. He was born in Santhiniketan which is in the campus of Rabindranath Tagore‘s Visva-Bharati. His Grandfather is a Sanskrit teacher. He teaches medieval Indian culture.
Amartya Sen Education:
Amartya Sen studied his early schooling at Dhaka from St Gregory’s School at 1941. Then he did his B.A Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata. He got his First Class Honors in B.A Economics. Next he joined Trinity College at Cambridge where he got another B.A. After that he got his Post Graduation at 1958 from Cambridge University to get his Ph.D.
Amartya Sen Personal life:
Amartya Sen Spouse name was Nabaneeta Dev Sen. They got married at 1958 and got divorce on 1976. After that he married Eva Colorni on 1978 and she died on 1985. Later on 1991, he married Emma Georgina Rothschild. His children were Antara Dev Sen, Nandana Sen, Indrani and Kabir.
Amartya Sen Teaching career:
At Jadavpur University, Calcutta on 1956 at the age of 23, Amartya Sen was appointed as the Professor and head of the Economics Department. Then on 1956, he submitted his Ph.D. thesis named by “the choice of techniques”. From 1961 to 1972, he served as a professor at Delhi School of Economics. Then he becomes the professor at Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics where he also taught at the University of Calcutta. From 1977 to 1988, he teaches at the University of Oxford. At that time, he was a fellow and a Professor of Economics at Nuffield College.
Then on 1987, he joined the Harvard University as Professor of Economics. Later on 1988, he becomes the first Asian to become the head of Cambridge college by the appointment as the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. After that on 2004, he returned to Harvard University and established a trust called Eva Colorni at the former London Guildhall University on the name of his late wife Eva Colorni. After that in India he was appointed as te chairman of Nalanda Mentor Group to check the International cooperation framework.
Honors of Amartya Sen:
Amartya Sen is the foreign honorary member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. On 1984, in the institute of social studies he was an honorary fellowship. And on 1999, he got the honorary citizenship in Bangladesh. Then on 2000, Amartya Sen received Order of Companion of Honor. In Harvard University he got the opportunity as the 351st Commencement Speaker. On 2013 NDTV represented him as the Greatest Global Living Legends in India. Later on 2013 he also got the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.
Books of Amartya Sen:
Amartya Sen published his first book called “Collective Choice and Social Welfare” on 1970. The book comprises the issues of basic welfare as a monograph which includes justice, equality and individual rights. On 1973, he wrote a book called On Economic Inequality. It was a study on the welfare economics which covers the economic inequality. On 1982, he published a book called “Poverty and Famines”. It is an essay on Entitlements and Deprivation. It highlighted the cause of lack of food supply, malnutrition and an analysis of famines. Next on 1984, “Development economies” was published.
The book comprises resources, values and development. On Ethics and Economics a book by Sen was published on 1987. It is one of the books containing the critical ideas related to welfare economics and modern ethical studies. To show gender imbalance on Newyork, he wrote a controversial book called “Than 100 Million Women are missing”. The Harvard University published his book by the name “Inequality Reexamined”. The book mainly focused the capability approach and examined the notion of inequality.
Publication works of Amartya Sen:
Amartya Sen on 1998 published his Nobel Prize lecture in the name of “The Possibility of Social Choice”. The core theme of the book is social change theory and welfare economics. On 1999, Sen came up with “Development as freedom” book. In this book he mainly focused on international development and developmental economics.
On 2002, he released a book called Rationality and freedom. This book was published in two volumes and he explains the concept of rationality, freedom, and justice. On which he explains each concept very clearly. The Argumentative Indian is one of his popular books. It is a collection of essays on the history of India.
It helps to identify the contemporary India. Allen Lane and Harvard University Press published Amartya Sen book named “The Idea of Justice”. The book highlights the economic reasoning. And at last on 2011, he published a book called “Peace and Democratic Society”. This explains the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. The book describes war, genocide, terrorism and peace.
Achievements of Amartya Sen:
- Indian Chamber of commerce awarded him lifetime Achievement Award on 2004. UNESAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) awarded him the Lifetime achievement award.
- On 2000 he received Leontief Prize and Eisenhower Medal for the category of Leadership and Service.
- Amartya Sen was the first chancellor of proposed Nalanda University on 2012.
- On 2014, “The New Republic” has defined him as the top 100 thinkers who defended our century.
- On 2015, he got the Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize followed by Albert O. by social science research council awarded him the Hirschman Prize.
- After that on 2017, he got Johan Skytte Prize for social science and on 2019 he got Bodley medal.
Awards of Amartya Sen:
Amartya Sen on 1984 awarded the Adam Smith Prize. On 1998, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contribution on the field of welfare economics. On 1999, he was awarded the highest civilian award in India Bharat Ratna. After that on 2001, International Humanist and Ethical Union awarded him the International Humanist Award. Later on 2011, he was awarded National Humanities medal. On 2012 he received order of Aztec Eagle award.