Part I 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: Mozaffar 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
Part II 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
Part III 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
Part IV 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
Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor
of International Studies, Department of Economics, and Director,
Center for Analytic Economics, Cornell University. He has held
visiting positions at CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), the
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the London School of
Economics, where he was Distinguished Visitor in 1993. He has been
Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Princeton University, and
M.I.T. In
1992 he founded the Centre for Development Economics in Delhi and
was its first Executive Director. He is also a founding member of
the Madras School of Economics. A Fellow of the Econometric Society
and
a recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Memorial Award for
contributions to economics, Kaushik Basu has published widely in
the areas of Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Game
Theory and Welfare Economics. Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of
World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and
Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He
holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of
Cambridge and a doctorate in economics from the
University of Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford,
Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia.
Ravi Kanbur has served on the staff of the World Bank, as Economic
Adviser, Senior Economic Adviser, Resident Representative in Ghana,
Chief Economist of the African Region of the World Bank, and
Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank. He has
also served as Director of the World Bank's World Development
Report.
Professor Kanbur's main areas of interest are public economics and
development economics. His work spans conceptual, empirical, and
policy analysis. He is particularly interested in bridging the
worlds of rigorous analysis and practical policy making.
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