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Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen Career Profile, Achievements, Awards, Contrubutions
Nobel Prize Winner Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen Career Profile, Awards, Achievements, Philosophy, Contribution to the World Economics
Amartya Sen is a much-admired, award-winning economist, writer and philosopher.
Amartya Sen publication ‘Development as Freedom’ was recognised by the Nobel Prize committee as an important contribution in the field of economic development theory.
One of his seminal 1992 works ‘Inequality Reexamined’, is an acclaimed book that brought together all the important themes of his work from over a decade. In this book, he addresses some of the most important concerns of inequality.
In 1954, he was awarded the Adam Smith Prize.
In 1998, he was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences that he received for his contribution to the field of ‘welfare economics’.
In 1999, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna, which is ‘the highest civilian award in India'.
In 2011, he was awarded National Humanities Medal. He was honoured with the Bharat Ratna by the then President of India.
The year 2000 proved to be a good year for Amartya Sen as this was the year when he was bestowed with a number of distinguished awards such as Companion of Honour in the UK, Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute, and Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service.
