His father teaches chemistry at Dhaka University (now Bangladesh). Immersed in the strong academic atmosphere around him, according to his later review, it seems that the future life path can't think of anything but studying, teaching as a text, and wandering between large and small campuses around the world.
Sen inherited his family studies and was very young. Later, primary and secondary education was mainly completed in the schools founded by Tagore. The courses here are rich in content, which fully embodies Tagore's cultural eclecticism. The school's educational philosophy is also very advanced, that is, it pays attention to stimulating and cultivating students' curiosity and thirst for knowledge, but never encourages the performance of being competitive and hoping to get ahead in the exam. This educational idea has a far-reaching influence on him and has benefited him for life. He had a wide range of hobbies when he was young. /kloc-before the age of 0/7, the interest changed several times. He wandered between Sanskrit, mathematics, physics and other different majors, and was finally attracted by economics and no longer interested. However, his willingness to engage in teaching and research all his life has never changed. After leaving Katan, Saintigny, 195 1 year, he entered Kolkata Regional College, majoring in economics; 1953 left India for Britain, entered Trinity College of Cambridge University for further study, and 1959 received his doctorate. Since then, he has taught economics and philosophy in Indian Delhi University School of Economics, London School of Economics, Oxford University, Harvard University and other institutions of higher learning. 1998 Elected Dean of Trinity College and returned to Cambridge to take charge of political research. After 2003, he returned to work at Harvard. He served as the chairman of some important academic organizations, such as American Economic Association, Econometrics Association and International Economic Association, and also played an important role in international affairs, such as serving as the economic adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and helping the United Nations Development Programme to compile the Human Development Report.
1952 18 years old, he suffered from oral cancer and received a large dose of radiotherapy in Kolkata. At that time, it was only seven years before the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the long-term effect of this therapy was still not well understood. High-dose radiation destroyed cancer cells in the mouth, but it also destroyed his hard palate bone. In the next 20 years, he has been facing the potential threat of cancer recurrence and bone necrosis. 197 1 year, he went to work at the London school of economics. The first thing he will do in London is to be admitted to hospital for a thorough diagnosis and treatment. The doctor performed plastic surgery for him for nearly 7 hours. When he woke up from anesthesia, it was 4 o'clock in the morning. He is anxious to know whether his cancer has recurred. But the nurse on duty told him that the results would not be announced until the doctor made rounds at 9 o'clock. He became nervous. The nurse felt his confusion and seemed to want to say something, but she hesitated. Finally, compassion worked. She said to him, "They praised you." He knew what such words meant, so he breathed a sigh of relief and fell asleep peacefully. Since then, whenever he intends to judge the quality of a society through the people's health level in his research work, he always thinks of the kind nurse and takes her kind attitude towards patients as a benchmark.
Amartya Sen has been married three times. His first wife, Naanita Ou Di, was a poet, novelist and literary critic. She is one of the most popular contemporary Bangladeshi writers. Poets often read to her with their works and ask her for advice. In his early years, he also studied the style and creative characteristics of Sanskrit epics such as Ramayana with Sen. Their marriage ended when they went to London in 197 1. 1973, Sen married Eva Kearney, whose parents were Jews. Kearney, who has studied law, philosophy and economics, has a profound moral spirit and is good at rational thinking. She died of stomach cancer on 1985. His third wife, Emma Georgina Rothschild, is an expert in economic history and was the director of the Center for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge.
One of Sen's important motivations for studying economics is to help his native India get rid of economic poverty and move towards prosperity. To this end, he once chose economic development as one of his main directions. 197 1 left India and moved to famous universities in Europe and America, but always kept close contact with domestic universities, especially Delhi University, where I once worked. He has been an honorary professor of the university. For academic activities and out of his own hobbies, he has been living a life of travel. After graduating from Cambridge, he often went back to India and never returned for half a year. He has always maintained Indian nationality. One advantage of doing so is to ensure his right to speak on domestic public affairs.
Amartya Sen has a wide range of research. In addition to economic development, he has made great efforts and made great achievements in welfare economics and social choice theory. More than a dozen monographs have been published, including Poverty and Famine: On Rights and Deprivation, Reason and Freedom, Viewing Development with Freedom, Identity and Violence, Economic Development and Freedom, Collective Choice and Social Welfare, On Economic Inequality, Ethics and Economics, Freedom, Reason and Social Choice, among which the first five have been published.
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to welfare economics and social choice theory research, and his concern for the problems faced by the poorest members of society, the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Swedish Academy awarded him the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. The problem that welfare economics tries to solve is how to evaluate whether the government's economic policy is appropriate according to the living conditions of the public. Kazuo Mori devoted himself to this research, so he was called "the conscience of economics". His monograph "Collective Choice and Social Welfare" published in 1970 has far-reaching influence. This book focuses on individual rights, the principle of majority rule, and the validity of information about personal conditions, aiming at urging researchers to pay attention to basic social welfare issues. He designed several methods to measure the degree of poverty, and the calculated data can provide effective help for improving the economic situation of the poor. His works on the causes of famine are especially famous. His research results are of great practical significance and provide practical solutions for effectively preventing or alleviating the consequences of food shortage.