Amartya Sen
b. 1933 · India · Economics, Philosophy
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.
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Who shaped Amartya Sen, and who they shaped
Inherited from4
- Gunnar Myrdal
1898 – 1987 · Economics, Political Economy
Asian Drama's institutional poverty analysis frames Sen's welfare economics.
- John Rawls
1921 – 2002 · Philosophy, Law
Sen's Idea of Justice is a sustained argument with Rawlsian ideal theory.
- John Stuart Mill
1806 – 1873 · Political Economy, Philosophy
Sen's capability approach reworks Mill's liberty into what people are actually able to do.
- Karl Popper
1902 – 1994 · Philosophy
Falsifiability and open-society argument run through Sen's critique of dogma in policy.
Passed the work to2
- Esther Duflo
1972 · Economics
Capability metrics motivate the outcome measures randomised trials evaluate.
- Muhammad Yunus
1940 · Economics, Business
Sen's freedom-as-development argument is the theory microcredit put into practice.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
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WorldCat (OCLC) · Archive