Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in 2017 in New Delhi. “Our ability to learn from each other must not be underestimated,” he writes in his memoir. (Raj K. Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty Images) Review by ...

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard, and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the ...

His college, Trinity—a place of magnificent renown—had at first rejected Mr. Sen’s application because there were already (as the rejection letter said) “too many good applicants from ...

Amartya Sen. Liveright, $30 (480p) ... Sen whisks readers from his college years in Calcutta and graduate studies at Cambridge to his later years lecturing on welfare economics around the globe.