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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

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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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

KAUSHIK BASU RAVI KANBUR

Part I Ethics, Normative Economics and Welfare

Chapter 1 Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory

JOHN BROOME

Chapter 2 The Sen System of Social Evaluation

S. R. OSMANI

Chapter 3 The Good Life and the Good Economy*

EDMUND S. PHELPS

Chapter 4 The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics*

MOZAFFAR QIZILBASH

Chapter 5 Rights and Interests

T. M. SCANLON

Chapter 6 Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development*

ARJUN SENGUPTA

Part II Agency, Aggregation and Social Choice

Chapter 7 Rational Choice on General Domains*

WALTER BOSSERT KOTARO SUZUMURA

Chapter 8 Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams*

BHASKAR DUTTA

Chapter 9 Individual Choices in a Non‐Consequentialist Framework*

WULF GAERTNER YONGSHENG XU

Chapter 10 The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions*

SATISH K. JAIN

Chapter 11 Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus

ISAAC LEVI

Chapter 12 Rights, Individual Preferences and Collective Rationality

PRASANTA K. PATTANAIK

Chapter 13 Irrelevant Alternatives

KEVIN ROBERTS

Chapter 14 Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules*

MAURICE SALLES

Chapter 15 Dominance Criteria for Critical‐Level Generalized Utilitarianism*

ALAIN TRANNOY JOHN A. WEYMARK

Part III Poverty, Capabilities and Measurement

Chapter 16 The Measurement of Capabilities*

PAUL ANAND CRISTINA SANTOS RON SMITH

Chapter 17 On Ultrapoverty*

SUDHIR ANAND CHRISTOPHER HARRIS OLIVER LINTON

Chapter 18 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings*

FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON SATYA R. CHAKRAVARTY

Chapter 19 External Capabilities*

JAMES E. FOSTER CHRISTOPHER HANDY

Chapter 20 On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines*

MARTIN RAVALLION

Chapter 21 Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach*

INGRID ROBEYNS

Chapter 22 Ungrouping Income Distributions

ANTHONY SHORROCKS GUANGHUA WAN

Chapter 23 A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty*

S. SUBRAMANIAN

Part IV Identity, Collective Action and Public Economics

Chapter 24 Concepts and Measures of Agency*

SABINA ALKIRE

Chapter 25 Sen's Identities

KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH

Chapter 26 Welfare Economics and Giving for Development*

A. B. ATKINSON

Chapter 27 Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project*

RAJAT DEB INDRANIL K. GHOSH TAE KUN SEO

Chapter 28 Isolation, Assurance and Rules*

PETER HAMMOND

Chapter 29 Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality*

JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

End Matter

Index of Names

Index of Subjects