About Amartya Sen:
Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen 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 and Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. He was also awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize in recognition of his work on welfare economics in February 2015 during a reception at the Royal Academy in the UK.
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
Amartya SenBut the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Amartya SenI left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
Amartya Sen