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...Sen first rose to prominence in the 1960s and, in the years since, has led a new wave of economic theory based on concern for the human implications of financial pressures on disadvantaged populations...
Finding a common thread in the economist’s work, though, is difficult. Pursuing a variety of projects over the course of his career, Sen has veered increasingly from his own field and into others. His intellectual hallmark, colleagues say, has become the intense interdisciplinary quality of his work—a trajectory that has drawn him outside the traditional boundaries of his field and into politics and philosophy...
...Amartya Sen is a hero to those of us who would recall economics to its roots in moral and political philosophy,” Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel writes in an e-mail. “He reminds us that economics can be a humane science, concerned not only with utility but also with human development, democracy and freedom...
...addition to his ample academic duties, Sen has also been the honorary president for OXFAM, a global organization that works to overcome poverty. He now serves as OXFAM’s honorary adviser. For both his academic work and his humanistic concerns, he has accumulated a long list of honors...
...Sen has written that he has always found it difficult to avoid touching on several different fields in his research...