Partha Dasgupta

An Inquiry Into Well-Being and Destitution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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This volume is a seminal work dealing comprehensively with the problem of poverty. It is an analytical and an empirical inquiry into human well-being and the phenomenon of destitution. Professor Dasgupta's aim here is to offer a description of destitution as it occurs among rural populations of the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; to give an account of the forces at work which perpetuate destitution; and to offer prescriptions for both the public and private spheres of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1015g
• ISBN-13: 9780198288350
• ISBN-10: 0198288352
• Artikelnr.: 22458886

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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