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 ...

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 ...

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: Women’s Progress Outdid China’s One-Child Policy What really brought down China’s birthrate was its education and empowerment of women, not the one-child policy. By Amartya Sen ...