At 23, Amartya Sen finished the work for his PhD in one year and then set up an economics department
At 23, Amartya Sen finished the work for his PhD in one year and then set up an economics department An excerpt from the Nobel Laureate’s memoir, ‘Home in the World’. Amartya Sen receiving the Nobel Prize from Swedish King Carl Gustaf in 1998. | Peter Mueller / Reuters By June 1956, at the end of my first year as a research student, I had a set of chapters that looked as if they could form a dissertation. A substantial number of economists at various universities were work ing then on different ways of choosing between techniques of production. Some were particularl...
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