An Inquiry Into Well-Being and Destitution

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-19-828835-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 680 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1015 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dasgupta, Partha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Ernährungsmedizin, Diätetik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

- References

- Author and Subject Indexes

Über Autor(innen)

Partha Dasgupta is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His previous books include; Economic Analysis of Markets and Games; Issues in Contemporary Economics, vol. 3; Economic Organizations as Games (with K.G. Binmore) and The Control of Resources