“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.”
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is an Indian economist renowned for his contributions to welfare economics, development economics, and ethics. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979 and is considered one of the most outstanding economists of the 20th century. more
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