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# Generated: 2026-09-01T17:04:14.111Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.