LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FROM INDIA FOR ECONOMICS

1. AMARTYA SEN

 

Date of Birth         : 3^rd November 1933 

Birth Place            : Santiniketan, India

Degrees                 : BA – Presidency College, Kolkata, 1953, BA – Trinity College, Cambridge, 1955, MA – Trinity College, Cambridge, 1959, Ph.D – Trinity College, Cambridge, 1959

Famous Works      : Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)

                                  Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation on (1981)

                                  Development as Freedom (1999)

                                  Rationality and Freedom (2002)

                                  Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006)

                                  The Idea of Justice

Nobel Prize          : Economics – Given for his contribution for Welfare Economics which includes the         measures of poverty and prevention of famines

 

Other Awards        : Bharat Ratna (India), The Eisenhower Medal (USA), The George Marshall Award (USA), the Edinburgh Medal (UK), The Aztec Eagle (Mexico), Honorary Companion of Honor (UK), Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Brazil), The National Humanities Medal (USA), Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (France)

 

2. ABHIJITH BANERJEE

 

Date of Birth        : 21^st February 1961

Birth Place           : Mumbai, India

Degrees                : B.Sc. University of Calcutta (1981), M.A. Jawaharlal Nehru University (1983), Ph.D. Harvard University (1988)

Famous Works     : Volatility and Growth (2005)

Understanding Poverty (2006)

Poor Economics (2011)

What the Economy Needs Now (2019)

Good Economics for Hard Times (2019)

Nobel Prize        : Economics – awarded for his work on “Experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” along with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer