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Amartya Sen
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 696
Citations - 145473
Amartya Sen is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Politics. The author has an hindex of 149, co-authored 689 publications receiving 141907 citations. Previous affiliations of Amartya Sen include Trinity College, Dublin & University of Chicago.
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Levels of poverty : policy and change
TL;DR: This article presented an overview of poverty, changes in poverty over time, and some of the causes of these changes, paying particular attention to recent controversy over nutitional norms and to the debate on whether poverty should be measured by such results as life expectancy or by such inputs as income.
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The Arrow Impossibility Theorem
Eric Maskin,Amartya Sen +1 more
TL;DR: The Arrow Impossibility Theorem as mentioned in this paper was proposed by Amartya Sen and has been studied extensively in the last few decades, including in the context of social choice and majority rule.
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Social welfare functions
TL;DR: In this article, a particular class of collective choice rules corresponds to Arrow's social welfare functions (SWF), which are defined as a set of or de rings over a given set of alternatives.
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Incompleteness and Reasoned Choice
Amartya Sen,Amartya Sen +1 more
TL;DR: A series of observations on rational decision making with incompletely resolved internal dissensions and the nature and use of incomplete valuational orderings and the ways and means of extending their reach are presented.