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 Esther Duflo FBA

The economic lives of households in poor countries: how they make decisions, what constraints they face, and how this should influence the design of policy; and the at-scale evaluation of such policies, mainly using randomized field experiments

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Professor Vernon Henderson FBA

The economics of urbanisation, including the evolutions of city systems and the built environment within cities, as related to institutional structures, with a current focus on China and sub-Saharan Africa

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Professor Mark Harrison FBA

Economic history of Russia and the Soviet Union; the two world wars; defence and security; fighting, cheating, stealing, lying and spying

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