Reports suggesting that Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen has passed away are not true, the Pratichi Trust set up by Prof. Sen has confirmed to The Hindu.
Several reports had said that Prof. Sen has passed away based on a post on X that claimed to be that of this year’s Economics Nobel winner Claudia Goldin.
However, the account mentioned by the Nobel Committee in its announcement a few days ago was different.
The family of the Nobel prize winner also confirmed that the news of his death is fake.
“It is fake news. I have just spent a week with him in our family home in Cambridge. He is absolutely fine, teaching 2 courses a week at Harvard, working on his gender book—busy as ever!,” the economist’s daughter Nandana Sen posted on X.
She also posted the denial on the micro-blogging site.
The fake news about the death of the philosopher-economist who will turn 90 this November, began spreading after it was posted on a fake account of Claudia Goldin, another Nobel prize winner in economics.
Several prominent people offered their condolences and re-tweeted the fake news, giving it currency.
(with inputs from PTI)
