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Amartya Sen and the Transformation of the Agenda of Welfare Economics

Amartya Sen, currently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics. In 1972, the Nobel Prize in Economics had been awarded jointly to J.R.Hicks and K.J.Arrow for their contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare economics. By awarding the prize to Amartya Sen for welfare economics, the Nobel Committee has identified him as the single most important thinker in this area after Hicks and Arrow. This is a very significant achievement in economics. Sen is the first Asian and the first Indian to achieve this distinction of the Nobel award in economics, securing him a permanent place in the Hall of Fame. Sen studied at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he studied under Dr.Bhabhatosh Datta, Dr. Tapas Majumdar and Dr.Dhiresh Bhattacharya and others, and later at the Trinity College, Cambridge. His dissertation on “The Choice of Techniques” was supervised by Maurice Dobb (and A.K.Dasgupta). He has worked at Jadavpur University, Delhi School of Economics (to where he was inducted by Drs.V.K.R.V Rao and K. N. Raj), the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and the Harvard University, in which he was a professor in the faculties both of economics and of philosophy. He has been the President of the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, the American Economic Association, and the World Econometric Society. He has received a number of honorary doctorates and has also been honoured with a number renowned Lecturerships. Very few scholars in economics have received so many distinctions as Amartya Sen has and from all parts of the world.