Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 547
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195651316
Description
This collection, influenced by the welfare economic perspective, contains many of Professor Sen’s path-breaking contributions to development economics.
This collection, influenced by the welfare economic perspective, contains many of Professor Sen’s path-breaking contributions to development economics. The investigations focus on resources allocation in non-wage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment, gender-based inequality, and hunger and famines.
The descriptive and predictive analyses go specifically into institutional features at different levels, involving the state, the legal system, the wage system, the market mechanism, the family and even the media and pressure groups. A substantive introduction brings out the links between the various themes.
COMMENTS:
From the body of work represented by this book, Sen emerges as one of the profession’s most remarkable protagonists of the forces of reason. Massively researched, scrupulously referenced.
- Robert Cassen
While asking his fellow welfare economists to be less uptight..Sen insists that they continue to be rigorous. It is this tension between richness and rigor that gives his writings their special flavor
- Economic Journal
Contents
Preface
Introduction
PART I : INSTITUTIONS AND MOTIVATION
CHAPTER 1
Peasants and Dualism with or without Surplus Labour
CHAPTER 2
Labour Allocation in a Cooperative Enterprise
CHAPTER 3
The Profit Motive
PART II
ISOLATION AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT
CHAPTER 4
On Optimizing the Rate of Saving
CHAPTER 5
Isolation, Assurance and the Social Rate of Discount
CHAPTER 6
Terminal Capital and Optimum Savings
CHAPTER 7
On Some Debates in Capital Theory
CHAPTER 8
Approaches to the Choice of Discount Rates for Social Benefit-Cost Analysis
PART III
SHADOW PRICING AND EMPLOYMENT
CHAPTER 9
Optimum Savings, Technical Choice and the Shadow Price of Labour
CHAPTER 10
Control Areas and Accounting Prices : An Approach to Economic Evaluation
CHAPTER 11
Employment, Institutions and Technology : Some Polity Issues
PART IV
MORALS AND MORES
CHAPTER 12
Ethical Issues in Income Distribution : National and International
CHAPTER 13
Rights and Capabilities
CHAPTER 14
Poor, Relatively Speaking
CHAPTER 15
Family and Food : Sex Bias in Poverty
CHAPTER 16
Economics and the Family
PART V
GOODS AND WELL-BEING
CHAPTER 17
The Welfare Basis of Real Income comparisons
CHAPTER 18
Ingredients of Famine Analysis : Availability and Entitlements
CHAPTER 19
Development : Which Way Now ?
CHAPTER 20
Goods and People
Name Index
Subject Index