Ignoble Don — The Lies, Prevarication, and Mischief of Prof. Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. The award citation said that his research was on “… how individuals’ values can be considered in collective decision-making and how welfare and poverty can be measured. His efforts stem from his interest in questions of distribution and, in particular, the lot of society’s poorest members”. A Harvard Gazette report on him winning the Nobel Prize says he earned the prize for his work on poverty and famine. The good professor’s net worth is now calculated at $16 million, and we can therefore surmise that studying poverty pays well. To supplement that income, he is now married to Emma Georgina Rothschild, a professor of history at Harvard, and an heiress to the Rothschilds’ family fortune, which is estimated at $400 billion.

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This is not the introduction that you would see in the latest interview of the 85-year-old Prof. Sen in The New Yorker which is titled “Amartya Sen’s Hopes and Fears for Indian Democracy” or any of the many, many adulatory articles on the much feted economist/philosopher. Of course not, for “Marty”, as he is known to his close European/white friends and fans, is a “brown sahib” — a smart, handsome (once upon a time), garrulous interlocutor from the…