Economics of Amartya Sen is an edited volume arising out of the contributed papers on this topic organised by the Indian Economic Association to honour its former President, Prof. Amartya Sen on the unique occasion of his winning the Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1998. The present volume consists of 25 articles and notes distributed over five sub-themes, viz. (i) Economics of Amartya Sen : An Overview, (ii) Economics and Philosophy of Amartya Sen, (iii) Amartya Sen and Welfare Economics, (iv) Amartya Sen and Development, and (v) Poverty, Inequality and Amartya Sen. The articles are authored by R.S. Mishra, S.S. Banhati, S.C. Sharma, J.N. Tewary, Amalesh Banerjee, C.B. Padmanabhan, Debansu Roy, Pragati Mohanty, Kalipada Basu, Kumar B. Das, R.P. Sarma, Ratan Lal Basu, Tapati Sanyal, K.M. Naidu, Anindya Bhukta, Biswajit Chatterjee, P. Jegadish Gandhi, Ram Naresh Thakur, Anju Kohli, Sadhna Kothari, Neelima Shrivastava, Asim K. Karmakar, Debesh Bhowmick, S.L. Pedgaonkar, Amarendra, Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma, Raj Kumar Sen. The volume also contains a Foreword by IEA President, Prof. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Preface by Managing Editor and IEA Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. Raj Kumar Sen and an Introduction by Prof. Ajit Kumar Sinha and Dr. Raj Kumar Sen.

Table of Contents:
A Few Words Preface Introduction Part I : ECONOMICS OF AMARTYA SEN : AN OVERVIEW : 1. Economics of Amartya Sen/R.S. Mishra 2. Economics and Ethics of Amartya Sen/S.S. Banhati 3. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen/S.C. Sharma 4. The Economics of Amartya Kumar Sen/J.N. Tewary 5. Radical Sen/Amalesh Banerjee 6. A.K. Sen-The Harbinger of a Revolution in Economic Theory/C.B. Padmanabham 7. Amartya Sen-The Great Economist/Uebansu Ray 8. Amartya Sen-The Nobel Economist/Pragati Mohanty 9. Economic Ideas of Amartya Sen/Kalipada Basu 10. Sensibility in Senology/Kumar B. Das Part II : ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF AMARTYA SEN : 11. Sen's Economic Philosophy in tune with Indian Economic Thought/R.P. Sarma 12. Magnificent Men in Quest of Ethics/Ratan Lal Basu 13. Amartya Kumar Sen : An Economist, A Philosopher Tapati Sanyal Part III : AMARTYA SEN AND WELFARE ECONOMICS : 14. Amartya Sen and Welfare Economics-Some Reflections/K.M. Naidu 15. Sen's Welfare Economics/Anindya Bhukta Part IV : AMARTYA SEN AND DEVELOPMENT : 16. Amartya Sen, Development Economics and Freedom/Biswajit Chatterjee 17. The Entitlement Approach : Its Conceptual Contours and Contextual Issues/P. Jegadish Gandhi 18. Amartya Sen on Human Development and Famine/Ram Naresh Thakur 19. Shrivastava Sen's Model of Economic Development - An Inter-State Analysis/Anju Kohli, Sadhna Kothari and Neelima Part V : POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND AMARTYA SEN : 20. Amartya Sen on Poverty, Inequality and Famine/Asim K. Karmakar 21. Amartya Sen on-the Measurement of Poverty/Debesh Bhowmick 22. Sen's Capability Approach/S.L Pedgaonkar 23. Poverty Estimation in India and Amartya Sen's P-Index/Amarendra 24. Amartya's World of Poverty and Public Action : A Lesson to Bihar/Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma 25. Inequality, Discrimination and Amartya Sen/Raj Kumar Sen