Amartya Sen
Economist Investigation
Group leader: Sean
G r o u p m e m b e r : To m P e t e r G e o r g e W i l l i a m
Contents
1
Biography
2
Nobel Prize
3
Fa m i n e
4
Demoncracy
5
Wo r k
Biography
 Indian economist, born November 3, 1933
 Presidency College  Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.
M.A. Ph.D)
Contributions to:
 Welfare economics
 Social choice theory
 Problems of society’s poorest members
 Causes of Famine
Nobel Prize
 Nobel Memorize Prize in Economics Sciences
 Combination of economics and philosophy
 Theory was originated from the ancient India
history
 Freedom and Democracy
Famine
 Interest stemmed from personal experience.
 Bengal famine of 1943, three million people
perished.
 “Poverty and Famines”
 Social and economic factors lead to starvation
Democracy
 What exactly is Democracy?
 "Democracy as a Universal Value"
 Three ways of the superiority of democratic
politics
 Democracy has universal value and should be
inherently enjoyed by any member of human
society.
Work
 A great number of work
 “Collective Choice and Social Welfare ”
 Closely related to political science
 State theory and decision -making process
theory
 Philosophical relationship with ethics, theory
of justice
 Nobel Prize-winning book in economics
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