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Amartya Sen right prize for the wrong work?

  • 14/08/1999

Amartya Sen right prize for the wrong work? it was only a few years ago, after Amartya Sen had moved to Harvard from Oxford, with highly regarded contributions in development economics, that the fraternity also had already begun to regard him as a potential Nobel Prize winner.

Since then, he had moved from his earlier fields to the poverty phenomenon of the poor, in particular, as sheer starvation and privation of the basic essentials of their being. Characterising this as not due to shortage of food, Sen branded it as due to a shortage of