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Throughout his career, Sen has gained special attention for his broadly based and unconventional interpretations of various economic phenomena. His unconventional interpretation of the 1974 floods in Bangladesh, for instance, garnered him particular acclaim...
...Presidency College Sen first became interested in welfare economics and democratic social choice. He continued to pursue these interests when, after receiving his degree in economics and mathematics while still in his late teens, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, to take another bachelor’s degree—and eventually a doctorate—in economics alone...
...when his dissertation snagged a no-strings-attached fellowship, Sen gained a few years of open-ended study at Cambridge. He turned to philosophy, focusing in particular on epistemology and moral and ethical topics. At Harvard, he has taught extensively in both the economics and philosophy departments...
...Sen taught at the Delhi School of Economics from 1963 through 1971, when he undertook several important projects in social choice theory—a branch of economics that addressed group decision-making by voters with different personal priorities...
...early 1970s Sen returned to England, teaching first at the London School of Economics and then at Oxford, where he tackled broad problems pertaining to poverty and economic inequity, focusing in particular on the causes of famine...