Amartya Sen

SPECIFICATION: Publisher :Rajpal and Sons By: Richa Saxena (Author) Binding :Paperback Language: English Edition :2016 Pages: 168 pages Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm ISBN-10::93506423110 ISBN-13: 9789350642313 DESCRIPTION:  Often called The Mother Teresa of Economics, Professor Amartya Sen is credited with giving a human face to the subject of Economics and bringing into its discourse issues such as social justice, democracy, freedom, philosophy, health care, gender inequality and literacy. Featuring in Time magazine's 2010 list of top 100 people in the world, Amartya Sen says, ''My job as an economist has been about identifying injustice, and I am concerned with developing human freedom and capabilities as tools." In 1998 Amartya sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in welfare economics. His intellectual odyssey has taken him across the globe from Jadavpur, Kolkata, Delhi in India, to Oxford and Cambridge in the UK and Harvard and Berkeley in the US. He has author