Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) 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, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries. He is currently a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amartya Sen has received more than 4,136,979 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Amartya Sen is the 22nd most popular economist (down from 21st in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from India (down from 2nd 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.