# Amartya Sen

> An economist who made famine and inequality problems you could measure — and for showing how freedom and welfare twist together in ways markets alone miss, he took the Nobel.

*Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** India
- **Born:** 1933-11-03
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Bengal in 1933, Amartya Sen studied economics through the lens of hunger and choice in a country that knew both intimately. His doctoral work led him to England and the U.S. from 1972 onward, where he rebuilt welfare economics around capabilities — what people can actually do and be — rather than income alone. The Nobel came in 1998 for contributions to social choice and welfare theory; India gave him the Bharat Ratna a year later. He taught at Cambridge as master of Trinity College before moving to Harvard, where he holds a university professorship in economics and philosophy. In 2020 the German Book Trade honored him for work on global justice, health, and education — the through-line of a career spent making deprivation visible in equations.

## Fame
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- **WEBSITE**: https://scholar.harvard.edu/sen

## Topics
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