Economic Growth, Efficiency and Inequality

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-89046-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

This volume deals with a range of contemporary issues in Indian and other world economies, with a focus on economic theory and policy and their longstanding implications. It analyses and predicts the mechanisms that can come into play to determine the function of institutions and the impact of public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jain, Satish K

Mukherji, Anjan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Ökonometrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Satish K. Jain and Anjan Mukherji 1. Intersectoral Disparities and Growth Amitava Bose 2. Cycles and Crises in a Model of Debt-Financed Investment-Led Growth Soumya Datta 3. Policy-Induced Changes in Income Distribution and Profit-Led Growth in a Developing Economy Gogol Mitra Thakur 4. A Simple Dynamic Bargaining Model Amarjyoti Mahanta 5. Increasing Returns, Non-Traded Goods, and Wage Inequality Brati Sankar Chakraborty and Abhirup Sarkar 6. Equality, Priority, and Distributional Judgments S. Subramanian 7. Contest with Interdependent Valuations Rittwik Chatterjee 8. Auctions with Synergy Srobonti Chattopadhyay and Rittwik Chatterjee 9. Negligence as Existence of a Cost-Justified Untaken Precaution and the Efficiency of Liability Rules Satish K. Jain 10. The 11-20 Money Request Game and the Level-k Model: Some Experimental Results Sugato Dasgupta, Sanmitra Ghosh and Rajendra P. Kundu. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index

Über Autor(innen)

Satish K. Jain is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He was a member of the faculty at CESP during 1978–2013 and held the Reserve Bank of India Chair during 2011–13. He has authored Economic Analysis of Liability Rules (2015) and has edited Law and Economics (2010). His areas of research interest are social choice theory, and law and economics.

Anjan Mukherji is Professor Emeritus at JNU and was member of faculty at CESP during 1973–2010. He was Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor during 2005–10 and was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru National Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (2011–13). Since 2011 he has been Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He has authored Walrasian and Non-Walrasian Equilibria: An Introduction to General Equilibrium Analysis (1990) and co-authored Mathematical Methods and Economic Theory (2011).