Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to address "Capitalism and Confusion"
April 13
* *WHAT: * The first George Staller Lecture
* *WHEN: * April 13, 4:30 pm
* *WHERE: * Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall at Cornell University
* *WHO: * Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences
ITHACA, N.Y. – Amartya Sen, noted economist, philosopher and public
intellectual, will give the first annual George Staller Lecture, April
13, at 4:30 p.m. in the Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall at Cornell
University.
Sen, the Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and
Philosophy at Harvard University, has been a major figure in economics
and moral philosophy during his expansive academic career. He was
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 "for his contributions to welfare
economics." His research has ranged over a number of fields, including
development economics, social choice theory, public health, gender
studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and
war.
His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and he has
been awarded an honorary degree or made an honorary fellow by more than
100 universities and colleges around the world. He has served as
president of the Econometric Society and the Indian, American and
International Economic Associations. He is a former honorary president
and current honorary advisor of OXFAM.
The George Staller lecture series honors Staller, a Cornell Ph.D. and
professor emeritus and a renowned teacher and scholar of Eastern
European and Soviet economies. The series, established by the Department
of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is made possible by a
gift from Russell B. Hawkins '77.
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