The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998
Awarded on: 1998-10-14
"for his contributions to welfare economics"
Affiliations:
- Trinity College – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Amartya Sen
Born: 1933-11-03 in Santiniketan, India
Gender: male
Field: Indian economist and philosopher (born 1933)
Biography
Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He has also made major scholarly contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries.