Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement

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This volume of essays, written in honor of Amartya Sen, 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.

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A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty.S. Subramanian
Concepts and Measures of Agency.Sabina Alkire
Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus.Isaac Levi
Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism.Alain Trannoy & John A. Weymark
Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development.Arjun Sengupta
External Capabilities.James E. Foster & Christopher Handy
Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: A Procedural Approach.Wulf Gaertner & Yongsheng Xu
Irrelevant Alternatives.Kevin Roberts
Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality?Peter Hammond
Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach.Ingrid Robeyns
Justice, Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project.Rajat Deb, Indranil K. Ghosh & Tae Kun Seo
Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules.Maurice Salles
Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications.Francois Bourguignon & Satya R. Chakravarty
On UltraPoverty.Sudhir Anand, Christopher Harris & Oliver Linton
On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines.Martin Ravallion
Rational Choice on General Domains.Walter Bossert & Kotaro Suzumura
Rights and Interests.T. M. Scanlon
Rights, Individual Preferences, and Collective Rationality.Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Sen's Identities.Kwame Anthony Appiah
Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality: An Essay in Honor of Amartya Sen.Joseph E. Stiglitz
Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams.Bhaskar Dutta
The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics.Mozaffar Qizilbash
The Good Life and the Good Economy: The Humanist Perspective of Aristotle, the Pragmatists and Vitalists, and the Economic Justice of John Rawls.Edmund S. Phelps
The Measurement of Capabilities.Paul Anand, Cristina Santos & Ron Smith
The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions.Satish K. Jain
The Sen System of Social Evaluation.S. R. Osmani
Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis.Anthony Shorrocks & Guanghua Wan
Welfare Economics and Giving for Development.A. B. Atkinson
Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory.John Broome

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