Amartya Sen Quotes

• While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

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• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

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• The curriculum of the school did not neglect India’s cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

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• People’s identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way – quite suddenly – to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

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• It is also very engaging – and a delight – to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

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• I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

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• I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

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• I have not had any serious non-academic job.

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• From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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• But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

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• Reasoning is a robust source of hope in a world darkened by murky deeds.

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Birth:	3rd November, 1933
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Economist, Professor

About

Amartya Kumar Sen was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. He is an Indian economist who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. 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 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. 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 earned a First Class First in his B.A. (Honours) in Economics. The same year, 1953, he moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a First Class MA (Honours) in 1956. After Sen completed his Tripos examination and enrolled for a PhD in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to India on a two-year leave.

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