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Amartya Sen

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Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [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. He has also made major scholarly contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amartya Sen is the 29th most popular economist (down from 21st in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from India (down from 45th 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 29 out of 414. Before him are Robert Lucas Jr., Ragnar Frisch, Paul Samuelson, Alexander Hamilton, Jean-Baptiste Say, and Joseph Stiglitz. After him are Gunnar Myrdal, Henri Fayol, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Elinor Ostrom, Charles Cooley, and Maurice Allais.

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Among people born in 1933, Amartya Sen ranks 18. Before him is Nina Simone. After him are Heinrich Rohrer, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Mako, Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, Jayne Mansfield, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paul Biya, and Paul J. Crutzen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amartya Sen ranks 72 out of 1,861. Before him are Aurangzeb (1618), Ghalib (1797), Bhāskara II (1114), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), and Akbar II (1760). After him are Jim Corbett (1875), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gerald Durrell (1925), Tulsidas (1532), and Savitribai Phule (1831).

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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), Kshama Sawant (1973), Bina Agarwal (1951), Raghuram Rajan (1963), and Gita Gopinath (1971).

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