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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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Wars and famines: on divisions and incentives
TL;DR: Sen et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated how the preparation for and the execution of wars influence the ability of famine-prone countries to escape mass starvation, a question of perhaps not much significance to highly developed industrialized market economies, but clearly of tremendous significance to developing economies.
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Presidential Address: The Nature of Inequality
TL;DR: For example, economic inequality is a state of the world in which some people are poor, perhaps thoroughly deprived, while others lead affluent lives -even roll in luxury as discussed by the authors. But the contrasts are often far more subtle and much harder to identify.