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Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
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Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
£135.00
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Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development
Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
672 pages
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tables and figures
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246x171mm
978-0-19-923997-9
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Hardback
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04 December 2008
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- Celebrates the scope and influence of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's work
- Includes contributions from leading figures across the social sciences
- Contributions discuss Sen's ideas and further extend the influence of his work
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the poor, and for plurality in cultural perspective. It is not surprising that he has won the highest awards, ranging from the Nobel Prize in Economics to the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. This public recognition has gone hand in hand with the affection and admiration that Amartya's friends and students hold for him.
This volume of essays, written in honor of
his 75th birthday by his students and peers, covers the range of contributions that Sen has made to knowledge. They are written by some of the world's leading economists, philosophers and social scientists, and address topics such as ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human development, society and politics. The second volume covers the topics of Human Development and Capabilities; Gender and Household; Growth, Poverty and Policy; and Society, Politics and History. It is a fitting tribute to Sen's own contributions to the discourse on Society, Institutions and Development.
Contributors include: Bina Agarwal, Isher Ahluwalia, Montek S Ahluwalia, Ingela Alger, Muhammad Asali, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Pranab Bardhan, Lourdes Benería, Sugata Bose, Lincoln C. Chen,
Martha Alter Chen, Kanchan Chopra, Simon Dietz, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Jonathan Glover, Cameron Hepburn, Jane Humphries, Rizwanul Islam, Ayesha Jalal, Mary Kaldor, Sunil Khilnani, Stephan Klasen, Jocelyn Kynch, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Kirsty McNay, Martha C. Nussbaum, Elinor Ostrom, Gustav Ranis, Sanjay G. Reddy, Emma Samman, Rehman Sobhan, Robert M. Solow, Nicholas Stern, Frances Stewart, Ashutosh Varshney, Sujata Visaria, and Jörgen W. Weibull.Readership: Academics, researchers, graduates, advanced undergraduates, policy makers and practitioners in economics, development studies, politics, philosophy, sociology, and education.
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Edited by Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Analytic Economics, Cornell University, and Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Cornell University Contributors:
Bina Agarwal, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Isher Ahluwalia, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Montek S Ahluwalia, Planning Commission, Government of India
Ingela Alger, Carleton University
Muhammad Asali, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Institute
of Development Studies Kolkata
Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley
Lourdes Benería, Cornell University
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Lincoln C. Chen, President, China Medical Board
Martha Alter Chen, Harvard University
Kanchan Chopra, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Simon Dietz, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Jonathan Glover, Kings College London
Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford
Jane Humphries, University of Oxford
Rizwanul Islam, International Labour Office, Geneva
Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University
Mary Kaldor,
London School of Economics and Political Science
Sunil Khilnani, Johns Hopkins University
Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen
Jocelyn Kynch, The University of Wales
Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, University of Pavia
Kirsty McNay,
Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington
Gustav Ranis, Yale University
Sanjay G. Reddy, Department of Economics, Barnard College, and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
Emma Samman, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Rehman Sobhan, Centre for Policy Dialogue Bangladesh
Robert M. Solow, MIT
Nicholas Stern, London
School of Economics and Political Science
Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan
Sujata Visaria, Department of Economics, Boston University
Jörgen W. Weibull, Stockholm School of Economics
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Part I Human Development and Capabilities
1: Muhammad Asali, Sanjay G. Reddy, and Sujata Visaria: Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
2: Amiya Kumar Bagchi: The Capability Approach and Political Economy of Human Development
3: Lincoln C. Chen: India-China: "The Art of Prolonging Life"
4: Kanchan Chopra: Sustainable Human Well-being: An Interpretation of Capability Enhancement from a 'Stakeholders and Systems' Perspective
5: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: Human Rights and Human Development
6: Jocelyn Kynch: Entitlements and Capabilities: Young People in Post-Industrial Wales
7: Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman, and Frances Stewart: Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions of Human Development
8: Ashutosh Varshney: Poverty and Famines: An Extension
Part II Gender and Household
9: Bina Agarwal: Engaging with Sen on Gender Relations: Cooperative Conflicts, False Perceptions and Relative Capabilities
10: Ingela Alger and Jörgen W. Weibull: Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism
11: Lourdes Beneria: From "Harmony" to "Cooperative Conflicts" Amartya Sen's Contribution to Household Theory
12: Martha Alter Chen: Famine, Widowhood, and Paid Work: Seeking Gender Justice in South Asia
13: Enrica Chiappero Martinetti: Time and Income: Empirical Evidence on Gender Poverty and Inequalities from a Capability Perspective
14: Jane Humphries and Kirsty McNay: Death and Gender in Victorian England
15: Stephan Klasen: Missing Women: Some Recent Controversies on Levels and Trends in Gender Bias in Mortality
Part III Growth, Poverty and Policy
16: Isher Ahluwalia: Challenges of Economic Development in Punjab
17: Montek Ahluwalia: Growth, Distribution and Inclusiveness: Reflections on India's Experience
18: Pranab Bardhan: Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India
19: Simon Dietz, Cameron Hepburn, Nicholas Stern: Economics, Ethics and Climate Change
20: Rizwanul Islam: Has Development and Employment through Labour-Intensive Industrialization Become History?
21: Robert M. Solow: Imposed Environmental Standards and International Trade
Part IV Society, Politics and History
22: Sugata Bose: Pondering Poverty, Fighting Famines: Towards a New History of Economic Ideas
23: Jonathan Glover: Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion
24: Ayesha Jalal: Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal's Philosophy to Sen's Ethical Concerns
25: Mary Kaldor: Protective Security or Protection Rackets? War and Sovereignty
26: Sunil Khilnani: Democracy and its Indian Pasts
27: Martha C. Nussbaum: The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right
28: Elinor Ostrom: Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities
29: Rehman Sobhan: Agents into Principals: Democratizing Development in South Asia
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