Oral history interview with Amartya Sen, 2003
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- Name
- Sen, Amartya, 1933- (Interviewee)
- Jolly, Richard (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Amartya Sen, 2003
- Abstract
- Background and childhood: Born in Santiniketan, India, 1933; education: St. Gregory's missionary school, Dhaka, Santiniketan school, Presidency College, Calcutta, Trinity College, Cambridge; career: professor, economics, Delhi University, 1960s, advisor and consultant to Secretary-General, International Labour Organization [ILO], United Nations Industrial Development Organization [UNIDO], United Na tions Children's Fund [UNICEF], United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD], World Food Programme [WFP], United Nations Development Fund for Women [UNIFEM], World Institute for Development Economics Research [WIDER], and United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], co-chair of International Commission on Human Security, 2002-3, president of Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Indian Economic Association, International Economic Association, and Oxfam, master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1998-2004, Lamont university professor, economics and philosophy, Harvard University; publications: Collective Choice and Social Welfare, On Economic Inequality, Poverty and Famines, On Ethics and Economics, Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom; awards: Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998; themes: family reminiscences, influences of poet Rabindranath Tagore, political incarceration of uncle under the Raj, recollections of witnessing a murder at age eight, reminiscences of Bengal famine and media response, idea of basic needs approach, Mahbub ul Haq and the Human Development Reports, human security
- Collection Name
- United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
- Subjects
- Nobel Prize winners; Economists; Human rights--Developing countries; Famines--India; Poverty; Sen, Amartya, 1933-; Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations History; United Nations Development Programme
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2003
- Note (Biographical)
- Advisor, consultant to Secretary General and numerous UN agencies
- Note
- Interviewed by Richard Jolly on January 20, 2003
- Note (Provenance)
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13685216
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-np0c-5217
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.