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Amartya Sen: Background Information

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1998 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to Professor Amartya Sen, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. (citizen of India) for his contributions to welfare economics.

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  • Committee, Nobel Prize, 1998. "Amartya Sen: Background Information," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 1998-1, Nobel Prize Committee.
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    welfare economics;

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    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General

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