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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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

Dasho Karma Ura has spent years defining Gross National Happiness. But persuading other nations to adopt an index aimed at spiritual well-being has had its challenges. By Kai Schultz An 18th-century ...

Amartya Sen has reminded readers that history matters, but it should not control the present. The economist and philosopher ...

“What’s wrong with inequality?” That was the question posed by Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen during his lecture at Ohio State on Tuesday evening. Sen, who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize ...

Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has been called for a hearing by the Election Commission in connection with the Special Intensive Revision of voter lists, Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress ...

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 ...

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 ...