![]() His school of thought has helped redirect development plans and a number of United Nations policies. ![]() His contributions to the development of economic and social indicators have been the concepts of capabilities and positive freedom, the real capacity of a person to be or to do something, as opposed to negative freedom, a common concept in economics focussing on non-interference. An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), he demonstrated that hunger is not a consequence of the lack of food, but rather of inequalities in its mechanisms of distribution. In his best-known work, Poverty and Famines. His research on famines and his theory of human development, welfare economics and the underlying mechanisms of poverty have contributed to the fight against injustice, inequality, disease and ignorance. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. ![]() He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2003 and first chancellor of Nalanda University (India) from 2012 to 2015. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) and taught Economics at the Indian Universities of Calcutta and Delhi, the London School of Economics, and the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Harvard (USA). Video: words by Her Royal Highness at the CeremonyĪmartya Kumar Sen was born on 3rd November 1933 in Shantiniketan (India). ![]()
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