Professor Amartya Sen FBA

Economics Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1977
Subjects
Economics, Philosophy

Current post

Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Thomas W Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

Past appointments

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow, Trinity College, CambridgeThomas W Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

2004 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Master

1998 -

Harvard University Thomas W. Lamont University Professor

1987 -

University of Oxford Drummond Professor of Political Economy

1980 - 1987

Publications

Rationality and Freedom 2002

Collective choice and social welfare 1970

Choice, Welfare and Measurement 1982

Idea of Justice 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Rae Langton FBA

Ethical aspects of speech act theory and social epistemology; metaphysics of properties; history of philosophy, especially Kant; free speech, hate speech and media ethics; feminist perspectives on pornography and objectification

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Professor Joseph Stiglitz FBA

Economics of information, economics of uncertainty, risk and agriculture, financial markets, growth and capital theory, natural resources, theory of market structure R&D, macroeconomics, monetary economics, international economics, development, distribution of income and wealth, welfare economics, comparative economic systems/organization theory, political economy, theory of taxation/public finance, theory of public expenditures

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Professor Stefan Dercon FBA

Applied economic analysis studying what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa and South Asia, and how to achieve change

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