Professor Amartya Sen is famous in which of the fields:

Question

Professor Amartya Sen is famous in which of the fields:

1. A. Biochemistry
2. B. Electronics
3. C. Economics (Correct answer)
4. D. Geology

Correct Answer

Option C — Economics

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is Economics.

Key Points

• Professor Amartya Sen is an economist, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics.
• He was the first Asian to win the economics Nobel.

Additional Information

• His work covers social choice theory, famine and entitlement, and development as freedom; his study of the Bengal famine of 1943 showed that famines can occur without any fall in food supply.
• He was instrumental, with Mahbub ul Haq, in devising the Human Development Index (HDI) used in UNDP reports.
• He received the Bharat Ratna in 1999. Other Indian and Indian-origin Nobel laureates in economics include Abhijit Banerjee (2019).