AMARTYA KIJMAR SEN was born on 3rdNovember 1933 at Shantiniketan, West Bengal. He received his initial education at Shantiniketan and then Presidency College, Calcutta.
In his early childhood he was exposed to the plight of the poor. The sight of people dying during famine shocked him. It was, perhaps, this shocking experience that made him study the economic mechanism underlying famines and poverty.
Sen. first studied in India before moving to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a BA in 1956 and then a Ph.D. in 1959. He has taught economics at Calcutta, Delhi School of Economics (1963-71), Oxford, Harvard and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1997 and 2004.
Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen. is one of the greatest intellectuals and economists of modern India. Amartya Sen. is a philosopher, economist and asocial thinker. At a time when the world was talking of globalization, liberalization and free market economy,
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