Answered You can hire a professional tutor to get the answer.

QUESTION

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Noble Prize Economist Amartya Sen. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Noble Prize Economist Amartya Sen. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. He is widely regarded as the Mother Teresa of economics because of his contributions to the poor. He is currently serving in two universities. in Thomas W. Lamont University as the Professor of Economics and at Harvard University as the Professor of Philosophy. Apart from that, he is a distinguished fellow in many other famous universities and institutions like Harvard Society of Fellows, All Souls College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge etc. This paper briefly analyses the contributions of Amartya Sen as an economist in the world.

“Amartya Sen was born on 3 rd November 1933 in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. His ancestral home was in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His family migrated to India following the partition of India in 1947”(Amartya Sen). The meaning of ‘Amartya’ is immortal. The renowned scholar of Indian literature, Rabindranath Tagore was the one who proposed the name of Amartya Sen. Rabindranath Tagore was one of the best friends of Amartya’s father. Sen started his school education in Dhaka. however, the division of India forced Sen and his family to migrate to India in 1947. The latter part of his school education was in Visva-Bharati University school. He has joined Presidency College, Kolkata, for his college education and completed his First Class First in his B.A. (Honours) in Economics. He left the Presidency College as the most eminent student of the 1953 batch. He has continued his higher studies in Trinity College, Cambridge, and completed a First Class BA (Honours) from there in 1956. He has enrolled for a Ph.D. in Economics in Trinity College itself after the completion of BA (Honours) from there. During the same period itself, he was appointed as the Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Later he returned to Trinity College and completed his Ph.D. in Economics.&nbsp.

Show more
LEARN MORE EFFECTIVELY AND GET BETTER GRADES!
Ask a Question