Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, restoring an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE from ...

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Senior ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen considers the alternatives. Campaigns against pollution that causes climate change often focus on reducing energy usage, when poor countries desperately need ...

Economist Marla Dukharan says the Caribbean must break free from its colonial past and reclaim its food sovereignty if it is ...

Australia has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world, but this won't always be the case if current trends ...

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Global life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past century, with Australia among the best performing countries.

Follow the welfare economy for superpower status; India has an edge over China due to democracy and inclusive development.

Mahathir bin Mohamad; Nobel Prize-winning economists Amartya Sen and Robert Mundell, and former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, among many others. Membership is open to all and includes ...

Excerpts from Amartya Sen’s Nobel Prize lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, 8 December 1998. Read the full lecture here.

Leaders from various political and business sectors have united to urge the government to consider conferring Bharat Ratna on Ratan Tata.

Why does economic growth matter? The answer for economists is that it measures an important component of social progress—namely, economic welfare, or how much benefit members of society get from the ...