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Amartya Sen

1933 - Today

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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 and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amartya Sen has received more than 6,285,828 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Amartya Sen is the 21st most popular economist (down from 19th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from India (down from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Economist.

Amartya Sen is a Nobel Prize-winning economist who is most famous for his work on the causes of famine. He argues that famines are not caused by food shortages, but by a lack of democracy and freedom.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Amartya Sen ranks 21 out of 414. Before him are Klaus Schwab, John Law, Gunnar Myrdal, Paul Samuelson, Jean-Baptiste Say, and Mario Draghi. After him are Joseph Stiglitz, Alexander Hamilton, Jacques Delors, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Henri Fayol, and Carl Menger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Amartya Sen ranks 18. Before him are Claudio Abbado, Jalal Talabani, James Brown, Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, and Nina Simone. After him are Heinrich Rohrer, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Mako, Elinor Ostrom, and Francisco Gento.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amartya Sen ranks 45 out of 1,861. Before him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Amir Khusrow (1253), Sita (null), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Bhāskara II (1114), and Tulsidas (1532). After him are Ghalib (1797), Tipu Sultan (1750), Savitribai Phule (1831), Meera (1498), Augustus De Morgan (1806), and Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904).

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Among ECONOMISTS In India

Among economists born in India, Amartya Sen ranks 1. After him are Mahbub ul Haq (1934), Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Avinash Dixit (1944), Gita Gopinath (1971), Raghuram Rajan (1963), Bina Agarwal (1951), and Kshama Sawant (1973).

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