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Honorary Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge: C. A. R. Hoare, Amartya Sen, Michael Atiyah, Andrew Huxley, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow |
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English |
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Paperback |
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68 |
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2010-05-04 |
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1155450930 |
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Books LLC |
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0.25 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.16 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: C. A. R. Hoare, Amartya Sen, Michael Atiyah, Andrew Huxley, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, G. E. R. Lloyd, Ekhard Salje, Jean Thomas, Arnold Burgen. Excerpt: Welfare economics Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Bengali : , Ômorto Kumar Shen ) (born 3 November 1933) received the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on welfare economics . He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University . He is also a fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge , where from 1998 to 2004 he was Master , the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is known as "the Conscience of Economics" for his work on famine , human development theory , welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty , gender inequality , and political liberalism . Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security . He has received over 80 honorary doctorates . In the year 2010, Time magazine listed him among the 100 most influential persons in the world. Biography Personal life Sen hails from a distinguished family from East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh ). His maternal grandfather Kshitimohan Sen was a renowned scholar of medieval Indian literature , an authority on the philosophy of Hinduism . He was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan and became the second vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University . His maternal grandfather was an uncle of the first Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sukumar Sen and the Law Minister of India, Ashoke Kumar Sen . Sen's father was Ashutosh Sen and his mother was Amita Sen, who were born at Manikganj , Dhaka . His father taught chemistry at Dhaka University and became Chair...
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