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6 unusual facts about Amartya Sen


Asha Pande

She is one of few Indians who have received this honour, other Indians being Satyajit Ray, Ravi Shankar, R.K. Pachauri, Amitabh Bachchan and Amartya Sen.

Gonna Serandi

Towards the west is famous Nanoor (birthplace of Chandidas), Bolpur-Santiniketan (home of Visva Bharati University founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and of Amartya Sen).

Great Chinese Famine

According to the work of Nobel prize winning economist and expert on famines Amartya Sen, most famines do not result just from lower food production, but also from an inappropriate or inefficient distribution of the food, often compounded by lack of information and indeed misinformation as to the extent of the problem.

Open Book Publishers

Authors with titles under OBP range from early career academics to prominent scholars such as Amartya Sen, Lionel Gossman and Caroline Humphrey.

The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership

The Kravis Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Marie-Josée Kravis, and also includes Harry McMahon, Amartya Sen, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Ratan Tata, Surin Pitsuwan and James D. Wolfensohn.

Welfarism

Amartya Sen, 'Utilitarianism and Welfarism' in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol.


Antara Dev Sen

Antara Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, India, the first daughter of Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen and novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

Feminist economics

In order to measure well-being more generally, Amartya Sen, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and other feminist economists helped develop alternatives to Gross Domestic Product, such as the Human Development Index.

Harvard International Relations Council

The HIR has featured scholars and policymakers from around the world, including Nelson Mandela, Samuel P. Huntington, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Shimon Peres, Paul Krugman, Chen Shui-bian, Amartya Sen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Ban Ki-moon, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Ted Turner and Javier Solana.

Human development theory

The most notable proponents of human development theory are Mahbub ul Haq, Üner Kirdar and Amartya Sen.

Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property rights and property wrongs

The book received positive endorsements from a wide range of authors, including Jeffrey Sachs, Nicholas Stern, Amartya Sen, Gordon Conway, Nancy Birdsall, Paul Collier, Akin Adesina and Pramod K. Mishra.

New institutionalism

New Institutionalism is often contrasted with "old" or "classical" institutionalism, the latter of which was first articulated in the writings of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and others, and which has been further extrapolated by various philosophers and scholars such as Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Amartya Sen, Donald McCloskey, Warren Samuels, Daniel Bromley, E. J. Mishan, Yngve Ramstad, and others.

Sanjaya Lall

The inaugural event was a panel discussion involving Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf, and the first holder of the new Chair, Professor Robert Wade of the London School of Economics.

Sukhamoy Chakraborty

He attended Presidency University, Kolkata as an Economics major, where he was a colleague of Amartya Sen.


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