Sen is the adjunct professor of population and international health at the School of Public Health and is based in the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies in Cambridge. “All my life I’ve been concerned with the underside of economics.” “I thought that was the best aspect of ,” Sen said. Sen said he was happy that the prize will call attention to welfare economics and to the situation of society’s poor. “I’ve been giving more interviews today than I ever have in my life.” “It turned out it wasn’t bad news it was very good news,” Sen said. When the phone rang that early, he said, he feared it was bad news. Sen said he was awakened early Wednesday morning by a phone call. He has developed new ways to predict and fight famine as well as ways to measure poverty, so that more effective social programs can be designed. Sen, 64, has done extensive work on the economics of poverty. Sen, Lamont University Professor Emeritus and a current adjunct and visiting professor at Harvard, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics Wednesday “for his contributions to welfare economics.” Sen, who, 55 years later, won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on poverty and famine. Living through it was a 9-year-old boy named Amartya K. Three million people died in India’s 1943 Bengal famine.
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