Amartya Sen

The name Amartya (meaning immortal) was given by another legend, Rabindranath Tagore. He is an Indian economist and philosopher of Bengali ethnicity. Sen has spent a great deal of his life teaching and working in the United Kingdom and the United States. Throughout his life, Sen has made significant contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. Among many awards that he has bagged till now, he was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and in 1999.

" While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality.

The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy."

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