Arguments for a better world essays in honor of Amartya Sen - Basu, Kaushik; Kanbur, S. M. Ravi.; Sen, Amartya 1933-. (Oxford, U.K. Oxford University Press, 2009)
Volume 2 -- Part I Human Development and Capabilities. -- Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty Based on a Capability Approach / Muhammad Asali, Sanjay G. Reddy, and Sujata Visaria. -- The Capability Approach and Political Economy of Human Development / Amiya Kumar Bagchi. -- India-China: "The Art of Prolonging Life" / Lincoln C. Chen. -- Sustainable Human Well-being: An Interpretation of Capability Enhancement from a 'Stakeholders and Systems' Perspective / Kanchan Chopra. -- Human Rights and Human Development / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr. -- Entitlements and Capabilities: Young People in Post-Industrial Wales / Jocelyn Kynch. -- Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions of Human Development / Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman, and Frances Stewart. -- Poverty and Famines: An Extension / Ashutosh Varshney. -- Part II Gender and Household. -- Engaging with Sen on Gender Relations: Cooperative Conflicts, False Perceptions and Relative Capabilities / Bina Agarwal. -- Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism, Ingela Alger and Jörgen W. Weibull. -- From "Harmony" to "Cooperative Conflicts" Amartya Sen's Contribution to Household Theory / Lourdes Beneria. -- Famine, Widowhood, and Paid Work: Seeking Gender Justice in South Asia / Martha Alter Chen. -- Time and Income: Empirical Evidence on Gender Poverty and Inequalities from a Capability Perspective / Enrica Chiappero Martinetti. -- Death and Gender in Victorian England / Jane Humphries and Kirsty McNay. -- Missing Women: Some Recent Controversies on Levels and Trends in Gender Bias in Mortality / Stephan Klasen. -- Part III Growth, Poverty and Policy. -- Challenges of Economic Development in Punjab / Isher Ahluwalia. -- Growth, Distribution and Inclusiveness: Reflections on India's Experience / Montek Ahluwalia. -- Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India / Pranab Bardhan. -- Economics, Ethics and Climate Change / Simon Dietz, Cameron Hepburn, Nicholas Stern. -- Has Development and Employment through Labour-Intensive Industrialization Become History? / Rizwanul Islam. -- Imposed Environmental Standards and International Trade / Robert M. Solow. -- Part IV Society, Politics and History. -- Pondering Poverty, Fighting Famines: Towards a New History of Economic Ideas / Sugata Bose. -- Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion / Jonathan Glover. -- Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal's Philosophy to Sen's Ethical Concerns / Ayesha Jalal. -- Protective Security or Protection Rackets? War and Sovereignty / Mary Kaldor. -- Democracy and its Indian Pasts / Sunil Khilnani. -- The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right, Martha C. Nussbaum. -- Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities, Elinor Ostrom. -- Agents into Principals: Democratizing Development in South Asia, Rehman Sobhan.
Keywords: Welfare economics; Institutional economics; Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects