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    Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England...
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  • rational. Emory University professor James Gouinlock and Harvard professor Amartya Sen argued that Rawls and Nozick erred in believing that unconditionally...
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    political theme. Sen is the daughter of Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri awardee Nabanita Dev Sen. Nandana was born...
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  • Development as Freedom (category Books by Amartya Sen)
    Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. The American edition of the book was published by Alfred A. Knopf. Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel...
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    Antara Dev Sen (born 1963) is an Indian journalist based in Delhi. Antara was born in Cambridge, England and did her schooling in Delhi and later in Kolkata...
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  • theories of other notable advocates of the Capability approach like Amartya Sen, but makes specific distinctions. One distinct idea she proposes is to...
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    (eds.), Choice, welfare, and development: a festschrift in honour of Amartya K. Sen, Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198287896...
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    a phenomenon of market productivity and increases in GDP; economist Amartya Sen describes economic growth as but "one aspect of the process of economic...
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  • The Idea of Justice (category Books by Amartya Sen)
    The Idea of Justice is a 2009 book by the economist Amartya Sen. The work is a critique and revision of the philosopher John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...
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  • The Argumentative Indian (category Books by Amartya Sen)
    Argumentative Indian is a book written by Nobel Prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen. It is a collection of essays that discuss India's history and identity...
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    In 1991, Rothschild married the Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic...
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    1980s as an alternative approach to welfare economics. In this approach, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum combine a range of ideas that were previously excluded...
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    Honorary Award in 1992 followed by the Bharat Ratna the same year. In 1999, Amartya Sen was awarded the Bharat Ratna, a year after his 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize...
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    Liberal paradox (redirect from Sen paradox)
    The liberal paradox, also Sen paradox or Sen's paradox, is a logical paradox proposed by Amartya Sen which shows that no means of aggregating individual...
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    Mirrlees / William Vickrey 1997: Robert C. Merton / Myron S. Scholes 1998: Amartya Sen 1999: Robert A. Mundell 2000: James J. Heckman / Daniel L. McFadden 2001–present...
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  • gender inequality. His co-authors include Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, with whom he has written on famine, Nicholas Stern, with whom he has...
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    town with the creation of Visva-Bharati. It is also the birthplace of Amartya Sen, an Economist, Philosopher, & Nobel Laureate It was inscribed on the...
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    University of Chicago Stanford University Black–Scholes–Merton model 1998 Amartya Sen (b. 1933)  India "for his contributions to welfare economics" University...
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    Mirrlees / William Vickrey 1997: Robert C. Merton / Myron S. Scholes 1998: Amartya Sen 1999: Robert A. Mundell 2000: James J. Heckman / Daniel L. McFadden 2001–present...
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    highest civilian award by the Government of India. In 1958, she married Amartya Sen, an economist and academician and then a lecturer of economics at the...
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    progress, the opposite sometimes occurs. For example, Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen have pointed out that an increase in GDP or in GDP growth does not necessarily...
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    Tauger, Mark B.; Sen, Amartya (24 March 2011). "The Truth About the Bengal Famine". The New York Review of Books. Tauger, Mark B.; Sen, Amartya (12 May 2011)...
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  • Equality of autonomy (category Amartya Sen)
    Equality of autonomy is a political philosophy concept of Amartya Sen that argues "that the ability and means to choose our life course should be spread...
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    Abdul Kalam. The first Chancellor of the university was Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, followed by Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo. Built at...
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  • with this university are Ronald Ross, Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman, Amartya Sen, and Abhijit Banerjee. The university has the highest number of students...
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  • Richard Rorty, John Rawls and Francis Fukuyama as well as the Indian Amartya Sen and the Peruvian Hernando de Soto. Some of these people moved away from...
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    with negative values?". Cross Validated. Retrieved 30 November 2022. Sen, Amartya (1977), On Economic Inequality (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press...
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  • prevalent in locations such as India, Pakistan, and West Africa. In 1990, Amartya Sen writing in the New York Review of Books estimated that there were 100...
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  • universal value when all people have reason to believe it has value. Amartya Sen interprets the term in this way, pointing out that when Mahatma Gandhi...
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    to their similar backgrounds, cultural experiences, and psychologies. Amartya Sen argues that even if interpersonal comparisons of utility are imperfect...
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