Amartya Sen, 86, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. Amartya Sen took a trip down memory lane as he remembered the day he received news of his big Nobel win. At 5 AM on ...

Amartya Sen is better known as an economist than as a philosopher, but he is both and more, like Adam Smith – someone he admires and who happens to share his initials. It is, quite often, his ...

Amartya Sen at his home in Cambridge, UK. As a Nobel Prize winner and a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, Amartya Sen is today a well know name. But did you know that the man who actually named him ...

Economist and philosopher Amartya Sen was born into an academic family in the Bengal region of India in 1933. That was during British rule, which lasted until 1947. In his new memoir, “Home in the ...

Suppose three children—Anne, Bob, and Carla—quarrel over a flute. Anne says it’s hers because she’s the only one who knows how to play it. Bob counters that he’s the poorest and has no toys, so the ...

This was the Britain—still very imperial yet so very picayune—to which Mr. Sen, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in economics, had come to study. He’d just finished his bachelor’s degree in ...

Nobel Laureate, recipient of Bharat Ratna and famed economist Amartya Sen is well-known for his economic theories and concepts. But did you know that this esteem economist was named ‘Amartya’ by ...

Amartya Sen has reshaped how we measure poverty by placing human capabilities at the centre of development. He has urged the ...

Famed Indian economist Amartya Sen is ‘totally fine’ and remains ‘busy as ever’. The clarification came from his daughter Nandana Deb Sen amid reports that the Nobel Laureate had passed away on ...

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Thursday said that the current situation in the country has become a cause for fear, and urged citizens to maintain unity, The Indian Express reported. Sen made ...

After the news of veteran economist and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen’s death surfaced, his daughter Nandana Deb Sen denied the reports. Taking to X, Nandana said, "Friends, thanks for your concern ...

“To understand why a people goes hungry, look not for catastrophic crop failure; look rather for malfunctions of the moral economy.” Critiques of capitalism come in two varieties. First, there is the ...