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Bicycles are not a common tool in economic science, but Amartya Sen's bicycle has played a certain role in his research.

A large part of his work is concerned with the conditions of the most impoverished members of society and how these can be improved. In a study on differences between baby girls and boys, he employed an assistant to weigh the children. Problems arose when the children did not want to weighed and bit the assistant. The episode ended with Amartya Sen bicycling through the countryside of West Bengal, weighing the children himself.

Amartya Sen was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his studies of social choice, welfare measurement and poverty research.

Read more about his research: https://bit.ly/2wk7RiJ

You can't buy happiness...But you can buy a bicycle...That's pretty close enough!!!

Happy world bicycle day❤