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Amartya Sen

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Professor Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his work on welfare economics - but he isn’t an ivory tower academic. In recent weeks, online commentators have threatened to kill him because of his criticism of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

30 Jul 2015 08:30pm

Professor Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his work on welfare economics - but he isn’t an ivory tower academic. In recent weeks, online commentators have threatened to kill him because of his criticism of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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