Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume Ii: Society, Institutions, and Development

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This two volume set of essays, written in honor of Amartya Sen, 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

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A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty.S. Subramanian
A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty.S. Subramanian
Agents into Principals: Democratizing Development in South Asia.Rehman Sobhan
Challenges of Economic Development in Punjab.Isher Ahluwalia
Concepts and Measures of Agency.Sabina Alkire
Concepts and Measures of Agency.Sabina Alkire
Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus.Isaac Levi
Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus.Isaac Levi
Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions of Human Development.Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman & Frances Stewart
Death and Gender in Victorian England.Jane Humphries & Kirsty McNay
Democracy and its Indian Past.Sunil Khilnani
Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism.Alain Trannoy & John A. Weymark
Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism.Alain Trannoy & John A. Weymark
Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India.Pranab Bardhan
Economics, Ethics and Climate Change.Simon Dietz, Cameron Hepburn & Nicholas Stern
Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development.Arjun Sengupta
Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development.Arjun Sengupta
Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities.Elinor Ostrom
Engaging with Sen on Gender Relations: Cooperative Conflicts, False Perceptions and Relative Capabilities.Bina Agarwal
Entitlements and Capabilities: Young People in Post-industrial Wales.Jocelyn Kynch
External Capabilities.James E. Foster & Christopher Handy
External Capabilities.James E. Foster & Christopher Handy
Family Ties, Incentives and Development: A Model of Coerced Altruism.Ingela Alger & Jörgen W. Weibull
Famine, Widowhood, and Paid Work: Seeking Gender Justice in South Asia.Martha Alter Chen
Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal's Philosophy to Sen's Ethical Concerns.Ayesha Jalal
From "Harmony" to "Cooperative Conflicts" Amartya Sen's Contribution to Household Theory.Lourdes Beneria
Growth, Distribution and Inclusiveness: Reflections on India's Experience.Montek Ahluwalia
Has Development and Employment through Labour Intensive Industrialization Become History?Rizwanul Islam
Human Rights and Human Development.Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion.Jonathan Glover
Imposed Environmental Standards and International Trade.Robert M. Solow
India-China: "The Art of Prolonging Life".Lincoln C. Chen
Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: A Procedural Approach.Wulf Gaertner & Yongsheng Xu
Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: A Procedural Approach.Wulf Gaertner & Yongsheng Xu
Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty Based on a Capability Approach.Muhammad Asali, Sanjay G. Reddy & Sujata Visaria
Irrelevant Alternatives.Kevin Roberts
Irrelevant Alternatives.Kevin Roberts
Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality?Peter Hammond
Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality?Peter Hammond
Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach.Ingrid Robeyns
Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach.Ingrid Robeyns
Justice, Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project.Rajat Deb, Indranil K. Ghosh & Tae Kun Seo
Justice, Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project.Rajat Deb, Indranil K. Ghosh & Tae Kun Seo
Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules.Maurice Salles
Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules.Maurice Salles
Missing Women: Some Recent Controversies on Levels and Trends in Gender Bias in Mortality.Stephan Klasen
Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications.Francois Bourguignon & Satya R. Chakravarty
Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications.Francois Bourguignon & Satya R. Chakravarty
On UltraPoverty.Sudhir Anand, Christopher Harris & Oliver Linton
On UltraPoverty.Sudhir Anand, Christopher Harris & Oliver Linton
On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines.Martin Ravallion
On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines.Martin Ravallion
Pondering Poverty, Fighting Famines: Towards a New History of Economic Ideas.Sugata Bose
Poverty and Famines: An Extension.Ashutosh Varshney
Protective Security or Protection Rackets? War and Sovereignty.Mary Kaldor
Rational Choice on General Domains.Walter Bossert & Kotaro Suzumura
Rational Choice on General Domains.Walter Bossert & Kotaro Suzumura
Rights and Interests.T. M. Scanlon
Rights and Interests.T. M. Scanlon
Rights, Individual Preferences, and Collective Rationality.Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Rights, Individual Preferences, and Collective Rationality.Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Sen's Identities.Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sen's Identities.Kwame Anthony Appiah
Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality: An Essay in Honor of Amartya Sen.Joseph E. Stiglitz
Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality: An Essay in Honor of Amartya Sen.Joseph E. Stiglitz
Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams.Bhaskar Dutta
Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams.Bhaskar Dutta
Sustainable Human Well-being: An Interpretation of Capability Enhancement from a 'Stakeholders and Systems' Perspective.Kanchan Chopra
The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics.Mozaffar Qizilbash
The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics.Mozzafar Qizilbash
The Capability Approach and Political Economy of Human Development.Amiya Kumar Bagchi
The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right.Martha C. Nussbaum
The Good Life and the Good Economy: The Humanist Perspective of Aristotle, the Pragmatists and Vitalists, and the Economic Justice of John Rawls.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.Edmund S. Phelps
The Measurement of Capabilities.Paul Anand, Cristina Santos & Ron Smith
The Measurement of Capabilities.Paul Anand, Cristina Santos & Ron Smith
The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions.Satish K. Jain
The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions.Satish K. Jain
The Sen System of Social Evaluation.S. R. Osmani
The Sen System of Social Evaluation.S. R. Osmani
Time and Income: Empirical Evidence on Gender Poverty and Inequalities from a Capability Perspective.Enrica Chiappero Martinetti
Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis.Anthony Shorrocks & Guanghua Wan
Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis.Anthony Shorrocks & Guanghua Wan
Welfare Economics and Giving for Development.A. B. Atkinson
Welfare Economics and Giving for Development.A. B. Atkinson
Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory.John Broome
Why economics needs ethical theory.John Broome

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