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For the full article, see Amartya Sen . Amartya Sen, (born Nov. 3, 1933, Santiniketan, India), Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in welfare economics and social choice. Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, and his research led to the development of solutions for limiting ...
Amartya Sen. 1933-. I n 1998, Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize “for his contributions to welfare economics.”. Much of Sen’s early work was on issues raised by kenneth arrow ’s “impossibility theorem.”. Arrow had shown, much more generally than Condorcet had in 1785, that majority rules often lead to intransitivities.
Sen’s Capability Approach. Amartya Sen. The Capability Approach is defined by its choice of focus upon the moral significance of individuals’ capability of achieving the kind of lives they have reason to value. This distinguishes it from more established approaches to ethical evaluation, such as utilitarianism or resourcism, which focus ...
Nov 30, 2021 · Amartya Sen: An internationally renowned economist who is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard, and winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his studies of ...
May 31, 2011 · In lucid and vigorous prose, The Idea of Justice gives us a political philosophy that is dedicated to the reduction of injustice on Earth rather than to the creation of ideally just castles in the air. Amartya Sen brings political philosophy face to face with human aspiration and human deprivation in the real world, to whose improvement he has ...
PDF | On Mar 31, 2018, Shija Kuhumba and others published Amartya Sen’s capability approach as theoretical foundation of human development published in Journal of Sociology and Development ...
Oct 6, 2019 · Amartya Sen, the Indian economist, philosopher, and public intellectual, lives on a quiet street in Cambridge, just around the corner from Harvard Square. His home, which he shares with his wife ...
