Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, restoring an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE from ...

LAST year, shortly after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics, Amartya Sen returned to his native India for a visit. One December morning, just outside Calcutta, at Santiniketan ...

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Senior ...

An excerpt of the interview by V.K. Ramachandran with Amartya Sen after he won the Nobel Prize, published in our November 6, 1998, issue.

Does it matter what is happening to world income distribution (among all 6.2 billion people, regardless of where they live)? Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing ...

Suman Ghosh with Aparna Sen Facebook As the lights dim in the theatre, a yellow taxi enters the screen, stopping in front of ...

No nation in the world can outrun the quality of its human resources. As India’s leadership, as well as overwhelming, ...

C.V. Raman – Physics (1930) Mother Teresa – Peace (1979) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Physics (1983) Amartya Sen – Economic ...

Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa, CV Raman and Ronald Ross are the others from Kolkata or have a connection to the city, who won the award. Two of them are from the city’s ...