Arguments for a Better World

Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-923997-9
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 646 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1277 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basu, Kaushik

Kanbur, Ravi

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.