# Amartya Sen (@amartya-sen)

Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher whose work broadened economics' account of welfare, poverty, freedom, and collective choice. His research connects formal economic reasoning with ethics, public health, gender, and development. He received the 1998 economics prize for contributions spanning social choice, welfare measurement, poverty, and famine.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Amartya Sen's public record._

## Topics

- [Capabilities and Freedom](/@amartya-sen/capabilities.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Famine and Entitlements](/@amartya-sen/famine-and-entitlements.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Poverty, Famine, and Democracy](/@amartya-sen/poverty-famine-and-democracy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Social Choice and Democracy](/@amartya-sen/social-choice-and-democracy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Capabilities and Freedom](/@amartya-sen/capabilities-and-freedom.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Social Choice and Justice](/@amartya-sen/social-choice-and-justice.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://sen.scholars.harvard.edu/biocv
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1998/press-release/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1998/sen/biographical/
- blog: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/06/tracing-amartya-sens-path-from-childhood-during-the-raj-to-nobel-prize-and-beyond/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "amartya-sen", "question": "…"}`.