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...autobiography that accompanies his 1998 Nobel Prize lecture, Amartya K. Sen recounts the story of how a fellow passenger on a plane once him told of an "apparently interesting" course being taught at Harvard by "Kenneth Arrow, John Rawls and some unknown...
...year was 1969. Kenneth Arrow was the proponent of a radical new theory of social choice, about to win a Nobel Prize in economics; John Rawls, Conant University professor emeritus, was an established philosophy professor about to publish his monumental work A Theory of Justice and the third professor--Amartya Kumar Sen--was, well, "some unknown...
...commendation for his Nobel prize, which Sen received in 1998, the committee wrote Sen "has improved the theoretical foundation for comparing different distributions of society's welfare and defined new, and more satisfactory, indexes of poverty...
...Nobel Prize committee is not alone in its praise...
...wrote in his Nobel autobiography that setting up the trusts in India and Bangladesh "gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical" in his country, and he says it reminds him of his days spent as a student, running evening schools and teaching literacy...