“If I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out ‘King Lear,’” says the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, whose forthcoming memoir is “Home in ...

When Amartya Sen—then not quite 20 years of age—arrived at Cambridge University from India in 1953, the landlady at the “digs” assigned to him by his college wasn’t entirely delighted to ...

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 ...

The race is on, and it's a packed field. There are more than 20 registered 2020 presidential candidates already, so you're probably still trying to figure out where they all stand on important issues.

Vidhi Doshi, here at The Post, reports: He may have won a Nobel Prize, but renowned Harvard economist Amartya Sen cannot say the word “cow” in a new documentary, India’s movie censorship ...

Sen has written books on a variety of subjects, including economic theory, moral philosophy, international development and feminism. He won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998.

"How Is India Doing?" is the title of an essay by economist Amartya Sen that appeared in the New York Review of Books in December 1982. Mr. Sen's answer, at the time, was that India had made ...

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.

Amartya Sen, the Nobel-winning economist, said he would quit as chancellor of Nalanda University this summer, saying the government wanted him to leave. By ...