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PGD-FM-09/11 AMARTYA SEN Presented By:  Ashish Makhija
“I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another” AMARTYA SEN
ROAD TO NOBEL Born 3rd Nov 1933 to Dr Ashutosh Sen & Amita Sen. 1953:Graduated from Presidency college, Kolkata. 1977-80 – Professor, Oxford. 1980-87 - Drummond Professor of political economy, Oxford. ,[object Object]
1957-63 – Fellow in Trinity College, Cambridge.
1963-71 – Professor, Delhi University.
1971-77 – Professor, London School of Economics.,[object Object]
Personal life Born in Santiniketan on the campus of Rabindranath Tagore’s Vishva-Bharti. Sen’s first wife was Nabaneeta Dev Sen from 1960-71.  They had two children Antra & Nandita.
He married his second wife Eva Colorni in 1973. She died in 1985 from stomach cancer. They had two children, Indrani and Kabir. Sen is presently married to Emma     Georgina Rothschild.
Nobel prize Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work      in welfare economics in 1998. The prize was worth $978,000 (Rs 4.1 crore). Sen was the sixth Indian to be awarded the          Nobel Prize . Rabindranath Tagore C.V Raman Mother Teresa Hargobind Khorana Subramaniam Chandrasekhar Amartya Sen receiving his Prize from the hands of His Majesty the King.
Other Awards Bharat Ratna in 1999. Eisenhower Medal, for Leadership and      Service USA, 2000. International Humanist Award in 2002. Life Time Achievement Award from Indian Chamber of Commerce in 2003.
Some Of His Works : Famine.  1981- Sen published his milestone work, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation.  "I know of no one who was affected by the famine ... no relation, no friend, no one I ever associated with. That, to me, was a great insight later, I thought, though I didn't see it at that time. I just thought we were lucky." (On the 1943 Bengal famine.)
Sen pointed out that it occurs due to the failure  of social and political arrangements. A country with :    Is prone to severe famine, starvation and undernourishment. ,[object Object]
No independent & critical press and media.,[object Object]
Social Choice 1970 – Published Collective choice & Social welfare. He offered an answer to Kenneth Arrow’s “impossibility theorem”. Arrow argued that it is impossible to devise a voting system with an outcome which is both rational and egalitarian. Arrow had, in effect, said farewell to democracy. Sen indicated that the case for democracy wasn't lost and that there is a lot of middle ground in the analyses of choice.
Education, Healthcare In India. Education & healthcare need greater government investment: Sen. Mere expansion of the Indian economy will not address the issues relating to the plight of the Indian child who continues to suffer from under-nourishment, anemia and lack of basic schooling facilities. The solution to the problem: ,[object Object]
An end to the negligent attitude towards women.,[object Object]
 Human capital investment.,[object Object]

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Amartya Sen

  • 1. PGD-FM-09/11 AMARTYA SEN Presented By: Ashish Makhija
  • 2. “I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another” AMARTYA SEN
  • 3.
  • 4. 1957-63 – Fellow in Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • 5. 1963-71 – Professor, Delhi University.
  • 6.
  • 7. Personal life Born in Santiniketan on the campus of Rabindranath Tagore’s Vishva-Bharti. Sen’s first wife was Nabaneeta Dev Sen from 1960-71. They had two children Antra & Nandita.
  • 8. He married his second wife Eva Colorni in 1973. She died in 1985 from stomach cancer. They had two children, Indrani and Kabir. Sen is presently married to Emma Georgina Rothschild.
  • 9. Nobel prize Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in welfare economics in 1998. The prize was worth $978,000 (Rs 4.1 crore). Sen was the sixth Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize . Rabindranath Tagore C.V Raman Mother Teresa Hargobind Khorana Subramaniam Chandrasekhar Amartya Sen receiving his Prize from the hands of His Majesty the King.
  • 10. Other Awards Bharat Ratna in 1999. Eisenhower Medal, for Leadership and Service USA, 2000. International Humanist Award in 2002. Life Time Achievement Award from Indian Chamber of Commerce in 2003.
  • 11. Some Of His Works : Famine. 1981- Sen published his milestone work, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. "I know of no one who was affected by the famine ... no relation, no friend, no one I ever associated with. That, to me, was a great insight later, I thought, though I didn't see it at that time. I just thought we were lucky." (On the 1943 Bengal famine.)
  • 12.
  • 13.
  • 14. Social Choice 1970 – Published Collective choice & Social welfare. He offered an answer to Kenneth Arrow’s “impossibility theorem”. Arrow argued that it is impossible to devise a voting system with an outcome which is both rational and egalitarian. Arrow had, in effect, said farewell to democracy. Sen indicated that the case for democracy wasn't lost and that there is a lot of middle ground in the analyses of choice.
  • 15.
  • 16.
  • 17.
  • 18. Keep the demand down.Because a great many people in our country live on the border line of subsistence and eat a great deal less than they would like to.
  • 19. 1982 - Choice welfare and measurement. 1986 – Food Economics and Entitlements. 1987 – On Ethics & Economics. 1992 – Inequality Reexamined. 1999 – Development as Freedom. 2002 – Rationality & Freedom. 2005 - The Argumentative Indian.
  • 20. PGD-FM-09/11 THANK YOU Presented By: Ashish Makhija