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Often called The Mother Teresa of Economics Prof Sen is credited with giving a human face to the subject of Economics and bringing into its discourse issues such as social justice democracy freedom philosophy health care gender inequality and literacy Featuring in Time magazines 2010 list of top 100 people in the world Amartya Sen says "My job as an economist has been about identifying injustice and Im concerned with developing human freedom and capabilities as tools"In 1998 Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in welfare economics His intellectual odyssey has taken him across the globe from Jadavpur Kolkata Delhi in India to Oxford and Cambridge in UK and Harvard and Berkeley in the USHe has authored several books many of which have been translated into more than 30 languagesAt the age of 77 the amount of work and travel that he does is astounding and at the last count had been awarded 89 honorary doctoratesWhat makes Prof Sen tick What keeps him going What were the defining moments in his life Who and what have been the major influences in his life Read about all this and more in this definitive biography which features some rare photographs from his personal collection.…