About the Book
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. The second volume covers the topics of Human Development and Capabilities; Gender and
Household; Growth, Poverty and Policy; and Society, Politics and History. It is a fitting tribute to Sen's own contributions to the discourse on Society, Institutions and
Development.Contributors include: Bina Agarwal, Isher Ahluwalia, Montek S Ahluwalia, Ingela Alger, Muhammad Asali, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Pranab Bardhan, Lourdes Benería, Sugata Bose, Lincoln C. Chen, Martha Alter Chen, Kanchan Chopra, Simon Dietz, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Jonathan Glover, Cameron Hepburn, Jane Humphries, Rizwanul Islam, Ayesha Jalal, Mary Kaldor, Sunil Khilnani, Stephan Klasen, Jocelyn Kynch, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Kirsty McNay, Martha C. Nussbaum,
Elinor Ostrom, Gustav Ranis, Sanjay G. Reddy, Emma Samman, Rehman Sobhan, Robert M. Solow, Nicholas Stern, Frances Stewart, Ashutosh Varshney, Sujata Visaria, and Jörgen W. Weibull.
Table of Contents:
Part I 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
Part II 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
Part III 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, 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
Part IV 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 Pasts
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
About the Author :
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. 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.
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 has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia and has served on the staff of the World Bank in several capacities, including as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.
