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Amartya Sen

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998

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Amartya Sen, Indian expert on welfare, was awarded the 1998 Prize in Economics. Dr. Sen got the news through a phone call at five o'clock in the morning - after that he needed a cup of coffee.
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