1998年荣获诺贝尔经济学奖的印度经济学家———阿马蒂亚.森对正统的福利经济学提出了挑战。他在对福利主义(welfarism)的狭隘性、价值免谈、社会福利函数理论以及财富万能观点逐一进行批判的基础上,提出了能力观、基本价值判断、社会选择理论和森贫困指数,从而为福利经济学的发展培植了新的生长点。 Amartya Sen, the Indian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, challenged orthodox welfare economics. On the basis of criticizing welfarism’s parochialism, value-free talk, social welfare function theory and wealth universal point of view one by one, he put forward the concept of ability, basic value judgment, social choice theory and Sen poverty index The development of welfare economics has fostered a new growth point.