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This thinker discussed childhood influences such as reflecting on prices at a local fish market in his 2022 memoir Home in the World. Along with his Marxist supervisor Maurice Dobb, this thinker posited a strategy of static real wages during the initial stages of economic growth. The male-biased sex ratio in Asia is the subject of this thinker’s NYRB article “More Than 100 Million Women are Missing.” This thinker channeled Arrow’s Impossibility Theory to contradict the notion that markets are both efficient and respect freedom of choice in his “liberal paradox.” (10[1])Along with Martha Nussbaum, this thinker developed the capability approach. This thinker concluded that panic buying, not a lack of food supply, led to the 1943 Bengal famine. For 10 points, name this Indian economics Nobel Laureate who wrote Poverty and Famines. ■END■

ANSWER: Amartya Sen [or Amartya Kumar Sen]
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2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y250%0%0%99.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial01/27/2024Y1100%0%0%90.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt01/27/2024Y475%0%0%87.33
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT01/27/2024Y1100%0%0%118.00