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Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development
Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
1,312 pages
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978-0-19-923999-3
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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.
Contributors include: Bina Agarwal, Isher Ahluwalia, Montek S Ahluwalia, Ingela Alger, Sabina Alkire, Paul Anand, Sudhir Anand, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Muhammad Asali, Department of Economics, A. B. Atkinson, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Pranab Bardhan, Lourdes Benería, Francois Bourguignon, Sugata Bose, Walter Bossert, John Broome, Satya R. Chakravarty, Lincoln C. Chen, Martha Alter Chen, Kanchan Chopra, Rajat Deb, Simon Dietz, Bhaskar Dutta, James E. Foster,
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Wulf Gaertner, Indranil K. Ghosh, Jonathan Glover, Peter Hammond, Christopher Handy, Christopher Harris, Cameron Hepburn, Jane Humphries, Rizwanul Islam, Satish K. Jain, Ayesha Jalal, Mary Kaldor, Sunil Khilnani, Stephan Klasen, Jocelyn Kynch, Isaac Levi, Oliver Linton, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Kirsty McNay, Martha C. Nussbaum, Siddiqur R. Osmani, Elinor Ostrom, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Edmund S. Phelps, Mozaffar Qizilbash, Gustav Ranis, Martin Ravallion, Sanjay G. Reddy, Kevin Roberts, Ingrid Robeyns, Maurice Salles, Emma Samman, Cristina Santos, Thomas. M. Scanlon, Arjun Sengupta, Tae Kun Seo, Anthony Shorrocks, Ronald Smith, Rehman Sobhan, Robert M. Solow, Nicholas Stern, Frances Stewart, Joseph E. Stiglitz, S. Subramanian, Kotaro Suzumura, Alain Trannoy, Ashutosh
Varshney, Sujata Visaria, Guanghua Wan, Jörgen W. Weibull, John A. Weymark, and Yongsheng Xu.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
Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford
Paul Anand, Open University
Sudhir Anand,
University of Oxford
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
Muhammad Asali, Department of Economics, Columbia University
A. B. Atkinson, University of Oxford
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley
Lourdes Benería, Cornell University
Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Walter Bossert, Université de Montréal
John Broome, University of Oxford
Satya R. Chakravarty, Indian Statistical Institute
Lincoln C. Chen, President, China Medical Board
Martha Alter Chen, Harvard University
Kanchan Chopra, Institute of Economic Growth,
University of Delhi
Rajat Deb, Southern Methodist University
Simon Dietz, London School of Economics and Political Science
Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick
James E. Foster, Vanderbilt University
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Wulf Gaertner, University of Osnabrück
Indranil K. Ghosh, Winston Salem State University
Jonathan Glover, Kings College London
Peter Hammond, University of Warwick
Christopher Handy, Cornell University
Christopher Harris, University of Cambridge
Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford
Jane Humphries, University of Oxford
Rizwanul Islam, International Labour Office,
Geneva
Satish K. Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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
Isaac Levi, Columbia University
Oliver Linton, London School of Economics and Political Science
Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, University of Pavia
Kirsty McNay,
Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School
Siddiqur R. Osmani, University of Ulster
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington
Prasanta K. Pattanaik, University of California, Riverside
Edmund S.
Phelps, Columbia University
Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York
Gustav Ranis, Yale University
Martin Ravallion, World Bank
Sanjay G. Reddy, Department of Economics, Barnard College, and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
Kevin Roberts, University of Oxford
Ingrid Robeyns, Radboud University Nijmegen
Maurice Salles, Université de Caen
Emma Samman, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Cristina Santos, University College London
Thomas. M. Scanlon, Harvard University
Arjun Sengupta, Indian Parliament
Tae Kun Seo, Southern Methodist University
Anthony Shorrocks, UNU-WIDER
Ronald Smith,
Birkbeck College
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
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
S. Subramanian, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Kotaro Suzumura, Hitotsubashi University
Alain Trannoy, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan
Sujata Visaria, Department of Economics, Boston University
Guanghua Wan, UNU-WIDER
Jörgen W. Weibull, Stockholm School of Economics
John A. Weymark, Vanderbilt University
Yongsheng Xu,
Georgetown State University
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Volume I: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement
Ethics, Normative Economics and Welfare
1: John Broome: Why economics needs ethical theory
2: S. R. Osmani: The Sen System of Social Evaluation
3: Edmund S. Phelps: The Good Life and the Good Economy: The Humanist Perspective of Aristotle, the Pragmatists and Vitalists, and the Economic Justice of John Rawls
4: Mozzafar Qizilbash: The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics
5: T. M. Scanlon: Rights and Interests
6: Arjun Sengupta: Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development
Agency, Aggregation and Social Choice
7: Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura: Rational Choice on General Domains
8: Bhaskar Dutta: Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams
9: Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu: Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: A Procedural Approach
10: Satish K. Jain: The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions
11: Isaac Levi: Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus
12: Prasanta K. Pattanaik: Rights, Individual Preferences, and Collective Rationality
13: Kevin Roberts: Irrelevant Alternatives
14: Maurice Salles: Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules
15: Alain Trannoy and John A. Weymark: Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism
Poverty, Capabilities and Measurement
16: Paul Anand, Cristina Santos, and Ron Smith: The Measurement of Capabilities
17: Sudhir Anand, Christopher Harris, and Oliver Linton: On UltraPoverty
18: Francois Bourguignon and Satya R. Chakravarty: Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications
19: James E. Foster and Christopher Handy: External Capabilities
20: Martin Ravallion: On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines
21: Ingrid Robeyns: Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach
22: Anthony Shorrocks and Guanghua Wan: Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis
23: S. Subramanian: A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty
Identity, Collective Action and Public Economics
24: Sabina Alkire: Concepts and Measures of Agency
25: Kwame Anthony Appiah: Sen's Identities
26: A. B. Atkinson: Welfare Economics and Giving for Development
27: Rajat Deb, Indranil K. Ghosh, and Tae Kun Seo: Justice, Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project
28: Peter Hammond: Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality?
29: Joseph E. Stiglitz: Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality: An Essay in Honor of Amartya Sen
Volume II: Society, Institutions and Development
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
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
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, and 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
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 Past
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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