An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 June 1995
- ISBN 9780198288350
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages680 pages
- Size 234x156x36 mm
- Weight 969 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, maps, tables 0
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Short description:
An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as a seminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating their incidence.
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An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as a seminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating their incidence.
Dasgupta has produced a tour de force, a book which is a model of good economics. He has addressed a set of questions which are of central importance, questions for which we really do care what the answers are. To answer these questions he has marshalled an array of evidence, empirical studies drawn from a wide range of sources. And he has brought some simple, but deep, theories and ideas to bear on these questions. The book will be a must for every development economist, but its reach should go well beyond that: every economist should be concerned with the questions it raises, and as a model of how good economics should be done, it should be required reading for every graduate student.
Table of Contents:
Part I Well-Being: Theory and Realisation
The Commodity basis of well-beingPolitical morality and the stateThe objects of social contractsWell-being: from theory to measurementThe realization of well-beingPolitical and civil rights indices (Appendix)
Part II Allocation of Resources Among Households: The Standard Theory
Resource allocation mechanismsPublic goods and common property resources (Appendix)Decentralization and central guidanceReal national income as a measure of general well-being (Appendix)Uncertainty, insurance and social norms
Part III The Household and its Setting: Extensions of Standard Theory
Land, labour, savings and credit; Households and credit restraints (Appendix)Poverty and the environmental resource base; Net national product in a dynamic economy(Appendix)Food, care and work: the household as an allocation mechanismAxiomatic bargaining theory (Appendix)Strategic complimentarities in fertility decsions (Appendix)Population and savings: normative considerationsClassical utilitarianism in a limited world (Appendix)
Part IV Undernourishment and destitution
Food needs and work capacityAdaptation to undernourishmentInequality, malnutrition and the disenfranchisedAnalysis of allocation mechanism when nutrition affects productivity (Appendix)Incentives and development policies
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