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Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences (1998)

Professor Amartya Sen is an economist and a Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences (1998) for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. He is currently the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and has also shown his commitment to reform from below by becoming honorary president of Oxfam.

“To fight against nuclear threats, we have to invoke rationality as well as ethics.”

In detail

In 1996, he became the first non-American president of the American Economic Association and his reputation was no less on the other side of the Atlantic. Throughout the 1970’s and most of the 1980’s he was in the best faculties, including the London School of Economics and Oxford. Between 1998 and 2004 he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, a coveted post never before held by a non-white, or even a non-Brit. It made Professor Amartya Sen a truly international celebrity.

What he offers you

Professor Amartya Sen provides audiences insights into the debate over globalization He also discusses the deception of using cultural differences between countries as an explanation of economic and political differences.

How he presents

A highly confident and passionate speaker Professor Amartya Sen is in great demand from audiences keen to benefit from his invaluable insights.

The Global Economic Landscape

Globalisation

Cultural Differences

Social Responsibility

2006
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

2005
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

2002
Rationality and Freedom

1999
Development as Freedom

Reason Before Identity

1993
The Quality of Life

1992
Inequality Reexamined

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