Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement
Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
Abstract
The year 2008 marks Amartya Sen's 75th birthday. Amartya has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and more broadly the social sciences. 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 ci ... More
The year 2008 marks Amartya Sen's 75th birthday. Amartya has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and more broadly the social sciences. 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 colleagues and students hold for him. This is the first book in a two-volume Festschrift for Amartya Sen. The chapters, from across a range of social science disciplines, are written by some of the world's leading thinkers. This first book covers the topics of ethics, normative economics, and welfare; agency, aggregation, and social choice; poverty, capabilities, and measurement; and identity, collective action, and public economics. It is a fitting tribute to Sen's own contributions to the discourse on ethics, welfare and measurement.
Keywords:
ethics,
normative economics,
welfare,
aggregation,
social choice,
poverty,
capabilities,
identity,
collective action,
Amartya Sen
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199239115 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239115.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Kaushik Basu, editor
C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Analytic Economics, Cornell University
Ravi Kanbur, editor
T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Cornell University
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