The Center for Ethics and Human Values presents
the First Annual CEHV Distinguished Lecture in Ethics
Amartya Sen
Professor Sen will discuss the value of inequality-aversion judged as a basic human concern and to what extent this priority might conflict with other human values, such as economic efficiency, or liberty and freedom.
Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Senior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Earlier on he was Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University Calcutta, the Delhi School of Economics, and the London School of Economics, and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University.
Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. He was also awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize in recognition of his work on welfare economics in February 2015 during a reception at the Royal Academy in the UK.
Professor Sen's lecture is co-sponsored by Honors and Scholars, Office of International Affairs, Office of Research, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Department of Economics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Humanities Institute, Sustainable and Resilient Economy, and the Department of Philosophy at the College of Wooster.
