Author

Amartya Sen

Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economic Sciences (1998) and Lamont University Professor at Harvard

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Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier.

Born1933 · Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

Notable works The Argumentative IndianDevelopment as FreedomIdentity and ViolenceThe Idea of Justice

HonoursNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) · Bharat Ratna (1999)