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Amartya Sen

Economist and philosopher; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998

India · b. 1933

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Economist and philosopher who has worked on social choice theory, welfare economics and the causes of famine. Awarded the 1998 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He has taught at Calcutta, Delhi, the London School of Economics, Oxford and Harvard.

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It was not long after Kenneth Arrow's path-breaking study of social choice, Social Choice and Individual Values, was published in New York in 1951, that my brilliant co-student Sukhamoy Chakravarty drew my attention to the book and to Arrow's stunning "impossibility theorem" (this must have been in the early months of 1952). Sukhamoy too was broadly attracted by the left, but also worried about political authoritarianism, and we discussed the implications of Arrow's demonstration that no non-dictatorial social choice mechanism may yield consistent social decisions.
Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1998 source ↗

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