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...Amartya K. Sen, Lamont University professor emeritus and a current adjunct and visiting professor in economics, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday morning...
...Amartya Sen has made a number of noteworthy contributions to central fields of economic science and opened up new fields of study," read a statement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize. "He has restored an ethical dimension to the discussion of vital economic problems...
...Amartya works on the most fundamental problems that lie at the crossroads of economics and philosophy," said President Neil L. Rudenstine in a statement. "He brings to those problems imaginative, brilliant analytic power and a moral vision that keeps him focused upon matters of quality as well as functionality...
...Amartya has touched the intellectual lives of so many students and faculty at Harvard," said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in another statement. "It's wonderful that such a gracious teacher and illuminating thinker should be so honored...
Department of Economics Chair Jeffrey G. Williamson wrote in a statement published on the Web, "While Amartya left us last spring to become Master of Trinity College, all of us here at Harvard feel the warm glow that his Nobel Prize gives out from Cambridge east to Cambridge west...