![]() ![]() Interview conducted by 's Nermeen Shaikh. Among his forthcoming books are Identity and the Violence of Illusion and The Argumentative Indian. His publications include Development as Freedom (Oxford UP, 1999) On Ethics and Economics (Basil Blackwell, 1987) and Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation (Clarendon Press, 1982). Professor Sen has taught at a number of universities worldwide and is presently Lamont University Professor at Harvard. ![]() In 1998, Professor Sen became the first Indian and the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Economics he was praised by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences "for his contributions to welfare economics" and for restoring "an ethical dimension" to the discussion of vital economic problems. His early education was deeply influenced by his school's founder, Rabindranath Tagore. NEW YORK, Amartya Sen was born in 1933 in Santiniketan, India. ![]()
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