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.Contributors include: Bina Agarwal, Isher Ahluwalia, Montek S
Ahluwalia, Ingela Alger, Sabina Alkire, Paul Anand, Sudhir Anand, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Muhammad Asali, Department of Economics, A. B. Atkinson, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Pranab Bardhan, Lourdes Benería, Francois
Bourguignon, Sugata Bose, Walter Bossert, John Broome, Satya R. Chakravarty, Lincoln C. Chen, Martha Alter Chen, Kanchan Chopra, Rajat Deb, Simon Dietz, Bhaskar Dutta, James E. Foster, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Wulf Gaertner, Indranil K. Ghosh, Jonathan Glover, Peter Hammond, Christopher Handy, Christopher Harris, Cameron Hepburn, Jane Humphries, Rizwanul Islam, Satish K. Jain, Ayesha Jalal, Mary Kaldor, Sunil Khilnani, Stephan Klasen, Jocelyn Kynch, Isaac Levi, Oliver Linton, Enrica Chiappero
Martinetti, Kirsty McNay, Martha C. Nussbaum, Siddiqur R. Osmani, Elinor Ostrom, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Edmund S. Phelps, Mozaffar Qizilbash, Gustav Ranis, Martin Ravallion, Sanjay G. Reddy, Kevin Roberts,
Ingrid Robeyns, Maurice Salles, Emma Samman, Cristina Santos, Thomas. M. Scanlon, Arjun Sengupta, Tae Kun Seo, Anthony Shorrocks, Ronald Smith, Rehman Sobhan, Robert M. Solow, Nicholas Stern, Frances Stewart, Joseph E. Stiglitz, S. Subramanian, Kotaro Suzumura, Alain Trannoy, Ashutosh Varshney, Sujata Visaria, Guanghua Wan, Jörgen W. Weibull, John A. Weymark, and Yongsheng Xu.
Table of Contents:
Volume I: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement
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: Mozzafar 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
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
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
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
Volume II: Society, Institutions and Development
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
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
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, and 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
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 Past
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, 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.
