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	Amartya Sen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sen was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, the University town established by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, another Indian Nobel Prize winner.
		Sen's contribution to the literature was to show under what conditions Arrow's Impossibility Theorem would indeed come to pass as well as to extend and enrich the theory of social choice, informed by his interests in history of economic thought and philosophy.
		Sen's revolutionary contribution to development economics and social indicators is the concept of 'capability' developed in his article "Equality of What." He argues that governments should be measured against the concrete capabilities of their citizens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amartya_Sen (2020 words)

	Amartya Sen - Amartya Kumar Sen Biography - Prof. Amartya Sen Profile - Noble Laureate Amartya Sen - India Amartya Sen
		Amartya Kumar Sen is one of the greatest intellectuals and economists of modern India.
		Amartya Sen is a philosopher, economist and a social thinker.
		Amartya Kumar Sen is an economist best known for his work on famine, Human development theory, welfare economics, and the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.
	www.indobase.com /indians-abroad/amartya-sen.html (669 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Commentary : Incredible Sen
		Amartya Kumar Sen has been preoccupied with these two sub-disciplines in economics, as was Kenneth Arrow, a Nobel prize laureate before him.
		Sen has once again demonstrated, in the spirit of Aristotle and much of the welfare economics, that human well-being and destitution are not the same as the abundance or lack of income.
		Amartya Sen has once again demonstrated the strength of economics science: It is the human well-being that economics is all about.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /commentary/sen.html (1091 words)

	Unfashionable Economics
		Professor Amartya Kumar Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998 in recognition of his "several key contributions to the research on fundamental problems in welfare economics", as noted in the Nobel citation.
		Sen’s contribution to the inequality issue is confined not merely to the refinement in the measurement of inequality, but also to a number of applications of the idea of inequality in important social policy areas.
		The four famines Sen studied are: (i) the Bengal Famine of 1943; (ii) the Ethiopian Famine of 1972-74; (iii) the Famine in the Sahel, 1973; and (iv) the Bangladesh Famine of 1974.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~schatter/unfashion.htm (10379 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The Guardian Profile: Amartya Sen
		Amartya Sen went to a school in Bengal which promoted curiosity rather than exam results, and he has never forgotten how one of his teachers summed up a classmate: "She is quite a serious thinker even though her grades are very good." In Sen's own case, the epigram needs re-phrasing.
		Sen's fellow economists love the way he has given the subject a friendlier image,yet he was not awarded the Nobel prize for his more accessible work in development economics, but for "social choice theory", the philosophical foundation backed by mathematics which supports all his writings.
		Sen had examined the disturbing fact that while female mortality is generally lower than male mortality at all age-groups in most cultures, this is not the case in India.
	www.guardian.co.uk /saturday_review/story/0,3605,465796,00.html (3994 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Identity crisis
		Sen sees it as his mission is to rescue what he sees as valuable in the idea of multiculturalism from the prevailing British idea of "plural monoculturalism", which he takes to be damaging and divisive.
		Sen was in London on the day of the July 7 bombings, and heard the ensuing appeals on the part of the authorities for "the Muslim community" to get its act together.
		Amartya Kumar Sen was born in 1933 on the campus of Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati, a Bengal school and university, where his grandfather taught and he later studied.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,,1712400,00.html (1512 words)

	Amartya Sen's human science of development
		Sen had long prepared himself for his conquest of new conceptual territory with rigorous training in conventional economics, the formal logic of social choice theory, and a nalytical philosophy, and demonstrating his prowess in all these areas through powerful streams of papers and books as he went along.
		Amartya Sen receives the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences for 1998 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 1998.
		Sen's achievement, as in most other areas of his work, was not simply to point to the complexities of the choice problem but also to make precise the nature of those complexities.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1612/16120640.htm (3891 words)

	Amartya Sen Batterbury Fernando draft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amartya Kumar Sen is an intellectual of global stature, highly influential in international public debate, and operating from the pinnacle of university life.
		Sen showed that human development was high in a number of countries, even though their per capita incomes (the standard measure of growth used by the World Bank and other international agencies) were low.
		Sen is in an ambiguous position in regard to his neoclassical roots in economics, being both master and critic of the discipline.
	simonbatterbury.net /pubs/Senlongversion.htm (3804 words)

	Nobel prize for Amartya Sen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sen tries to reconcile left and left--that is, those welfare liberals who emphasize equality of "opportunity" (and thus favor limited redistribution schemes) and those radicals who believe nothing less than equality of "capability" will do (something that, as Kurt Vonnegut recognized in the story "Harrison Bergeron," would require the deliberate handicapping of talented people).
		Sen, being an expert in the kind of quibbling or "problematizing" on which far too many students base doctoral dissertations, makes it hard to pin down his view, though he seems to lean toward the latter position.
		Sen's research is not meant to help editorial writers in writing their editorials in a few minutes.
	poorcity.richcity.org /entrosen.htm (1769 words)

	Interview: Amartya Sen, Master Trinity College, Cambridge University
		When Amartya Sen was asked by his secretary how she should respond to journalists inquiring about Trinity College's reaction to his Nobel, he is reported to have asked her to say: "This is the 31st Nobel Prize for Trinity, and we are not excited." Fair enough.
		Sen emphasises that these areas are not only important in themselves as determinants of human welfare; they also affect the pace of growth and the distribution of the benefits of growth.
		Sen's message for policy-makers is summed up in his distinction between "market-excluding government intervention" and "market-complementary intervention." He is against market-excluding interventions, such as regulations and controls that stifle economic initiatives and prohibit trade.
	www.india-today.com /btoday/07111998/inter.html (2664 words)

	AMARTYA SEN Bijon B. Sarma
		Sen was awarded by the west was ‘due to fulfilling the criteria set by them’.
		Sen opined against those who are against Globalization, opined that democracy does nor work under socialist or military rulers, maximum welfare of the common people can be ensured under democratic system etc. While there cannot be any dispute in the last one, it is time for Prof.
		Sen does not reveal to the ‘facts’ to the sufferers, and continue using the wrong term (i.e.‘globalization’).
	www.mukto-mona.com /Articles/b_sarma/amartya_sen1.htm (1656 words)

	Media Releases 2003 - Media \| IISD
		Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, critiqued the text and said he was "very happy with what elegance and reach you have reflected the main concerns that I tried to present, and in such an accessible and entertaining form.
		Sen argues that economic growth is only one of many factors involved in reducing poverty and improving well being; that essential freedoms and personal capabilities in a democratic decision-making system are the real measures of national development and quality of life.
		Sen's landmark work in welfare and development economics earned him the Nobel Prize in 1998, the same year he was appointed the first non-British Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, considered by many the most prestigious academic post in the United Kingdom.
	www.iisd.org /media/2003/feb_05_2003.asp (824 words)

	webindia123-Indian personalities famous abroad - Amartya Sen
		Amartya Kumar Sen, son of Amita Sen and Ashutosh Sen, was born on 3rd November 1933 at Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
		Sen's contributions on welfare economics and definition of poverty in relation to development have offered a new philosophy and an alternative way to solid economic development.
		Sen is the sixth Indian to get the Nobel and the first Asian winner of the Economics Prize.
	www.webindia123.com /personal/abroad/amartya.htm (377 words)

	Professor amartya sen - Khoj - Directory for amartya sen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Professor Amartya Sen. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Professor Amartya Sen is at the forefront of 'welfare economics', uniting mathematical economic theory with real-world effects in the rural households which
		Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998.
	newinfoseek.com /nwis/professor-amartya-sen.html (506 words)

	The Globalist \| Biography of Amartya Sen
		Amartya Kumar Sen was born in Santiniketan, India in 1933.
		Sen has taught economics at a long list of universities — Jadavpur University in Calcutta, Cambridge University, University of Delhi, London School of Economics and Oxford University.
		At present, Dr. Sen is a professor of economics at Trinity College in Cambridge.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=70 (171 words)

	Amazon.com: Development as Freedom: Books: Amartya Sen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For Sen, the answer is clear: India, with its massive neglect of public education, basic health care and literacy, was poorly prepared for a widely shared economic expansion; China, on the other hand, having made substantial advances in those areas, was able to capitalize on its market reforms.
		The foundation is Sen's view of well-being formulated as follows: "We all want the capability to live long (without being cut off in our prime) have a good life (rather than a life of misery and unfreedom)" and "We would all like to lead a kind of life that we have reason to value".
		Sen warns on the danger of "high minded sentimentality, assuming that all people are peculiarly virtuous and keen to be just" or the equally unrealistic "Low-minded sentimentality, which some economists appear to prefer, that we are only influenced by crude consideration of personal advantage".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385720270?v=glance (2343 words)

	Ambassador Marie T. Huhtala - U.S.-Asia Relations: The Next Four Years
		PROFESSOR SEN: When I – when we decided that something on poverty – we were talking about various subjects and I talked about identity and violence.
		PROFESSOR SEN: Well, I think there is a connection, a clear connection.
		PROFESSOR SEN: Well, I am delighted with the question and I wish I had the privilege of having you as my student; it would be very nice to have a conversation on this.
	www.asiasociety.org /speeches/hk_sen05.html (6151 words)

	The Sen lecture
		Amartya Kumar Sen's lectures in India are an annual ritual.
		The distortions that Sen points to -- so runs the explanation of the liberaliser -- are the result of planning.
		Sen has been listened to as dutifully as he delivered his piece.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980101/00155154.html (277 words)

	Amartya Sen, Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health, Department of Population and International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amartya Kumar Sen was born in India and was educated in Calcutta and Cambridge, England.
		Professor Sen's research has ranged over a number of fields in economics and philosophy, including welfare economics, social choice theory, decision theory, economic measurement, development economics and moral and political philosophy.
		In 1990 Professor Sen received both the Giovanni Agnelli International Prize for his research on ethics of modern society, and the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award for his work on understanding and preventing world hunger.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /facres/senak.html (319 words)

	Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Kumar Sen, A. K. Sen, A. Sen, Amartya K. Sen at Smarter.com
		Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Kumar Sen, A. Sen, A. Sen, Amartya K. Sen at Smarter.com
		"Amartya Sen has distilled a decade's reflections on questions of equality, poverty, and welfare into [this] book...Economic philosophers will be glad to see Sen's ideas summarized and interwoven...He is certainly a master of his craft." "'Inequality Reexamined' is splendidly concise.
		Sen's aim is to present a small number of abstract theses that are as important to him as his more down-to-earth reflections.
	www.smarter.com /inequality_reexamined---pd--ch-1--pi-854285.html (349 words)

	Untitled Document
		Atkinson, Anthony B. "The contributions of Amartya Sen to welfare economics." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 101:173-190.
		Brahmananda, P. "Amartya Sen and the Transformation of the Agenda of Welfare Economics." Indian Economic Journal 46:1-25.
		Sen, Amartya, with, Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid Robeyns.
	www.uia.mx /humanismocristiano/seminario_capability/biblio.html (4582 words)

	MBEAW: Amartya Sen
		Review essay on Development as Freedom, good introduction to Sen's thought about basic issues: famine, population, gender, freedom and democracy and critique of his attitude toward global corporations.
		Sinha, Ajit Kumar and Raj Kumar Sen. Economics of Amartya Sen (New Delhi: Deep and Deep, 2000).
		Development as Freedom: Contributions and Shortcomings of Amartya Sen's Development Philosophy for Feminist Economics (The Hague: Institute of Social Studies, 2002).
	www.mbeaw.org /resources/voices/sen.html (329 words)

	DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM - Amartya Kumar Sen
		Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, focuses on the usefulness and value of development when it expands into real freedom that people enjoy.
		Hence, freedom should be the agent of universal development as well as its goal.
		If my presentation here arouses any interest, and leads to more public discussion of these vital issues, I would have reason to feel well rewarded.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /books/0385720270.html (1000 words)

	Honorary Fellowships announced for 2003
		If you would like to attend in a media capacity, or send a photographer, please contact the School's Press Office on 020 7927 2073.
		'Amartya Kumar Sen has had a profound influence on economic ideas and their application for half a century.
		Just as Statistics is where mathematics and philosophy meet, so Sen is where economics and philosophy meet, but this meeting is also where the development of ideas impacts directly on guidance for policy and practice.
	www.lshtm.ac.uk /news/2003/honfellows.html (1013 words)

	Amartya Kumar Sen Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In the course of his distinguished career, Amartya K. Sen has scrutinized the foundations of economic theory and analysis.
		Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment, gender-based inequality, and hunger and famines.
		This volume brings together the collection of papers that have shaped the human development approach with its set of concepts, measurement tools and policy perspectives.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Amartya_Kumar_Sen (293 words)

	As - Amartya Kumar Sen - Democracy as a Universal Value - Journal of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As - Amartya Kumar Sen - Democracy as a Universal Value - Journal of
		Amartya Kumar Sen - Democracy as a Universal Value - Journal of
		Article by Sen in the Journal of Democracy 10:3, using ideas more fully developed in 'Democracy as Freedom'.
	ezinfoguide.com /?q=as (274 words)

	University of York Press Release
		Distinguished figures from many walks of life, including the Chief Medical Officer for England, the Nobel prize winner Professor Amartya Kumar Sen, and the international clarinettist and conductor Alan Hacker, receive honorary doctorates at the University of York next week.
		Professor Amartya Kumar Sen is a Nobel prize winner, former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
		A Fellow of the British Academy, he is a distinguished economist whose work has had a huge impact in the international arena, particularly in dealing with the problems of the poor and the hungry, taking a holistic approach to economic development, poverty and the role of women.
	www.york.ac.uk /admin/presspr/pressreleases/hongrads2004.htm (1046 words)

	Amartya Sen - books at Amazon.com: Amartya Sen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amartya Sen - books at Amazon.com: Amartya Sen
		- Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny - Amartya Sen
		- On Ethics and Economics - Amartya Sen
	danny.oz.au /books/amazon/k/Amartya+Sen.html (114 words)

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