Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development

Herausgeber: Mishra, Ajit; Ray, Tridip

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from past and present collaborators, this book celebrates the contributions of Kaushik Basu to development economics. It reflects on the issues of rent control, child labour, labour laws, harrassment, shared prosperity, and gender empowerment in the broader context of interactions between markets, governments, and institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812555
• ISBN-10: 0198812558
• Artikelnr.: 48688699

Autorenporträt

Ajit Mishra is a development economist with research interests in the economics of corruption and enforcement, inequality, vulnerability, and applied microeconomics. He is currently a Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bath. He graduated from the Delhi School of Economics and, prior to University of Bath, taught at various institutions including Delhi School of Economics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Ashoka University, the University of Dundee, and the University of Edinburgh. He has written several articles on corruption and is the Editor of The Economics of Corruption (Oxford University Press, 2005). Tridip Ray is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before joining ISI Delhi. His research areas include economic development and growth, inequality, financial development, economics of education, and issues in applied microeconomics. He has published several articles on economic development and is the Co-Editor of New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics (World Scientific, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: Amartya Sen: Early Kaushik and the World Lately
* 1: Ajit Mishra and Tridip Ray: Introduction
* Development: Foundations and Measurement
* 2: Joseph E. Stiglitz: Markets, State, and Institutions
* 3: Prasanta Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu: On a Concept of Freedom
* 4: Bhaskar Dutta: Multi-dimensional Poverty: Some Comments
* 5: S. Subramanian: The Quintile Income Statistic and Distributional
Analysis
* 6: Tapan Mitra: Sensitivity of Stationary Equitable Preferences
* 7: Ranjan Ray: The Link between Preferences, Price, Inequality, and
Poverty: The Indian Evidence
* Markets and Development
* 8: Jörgen W. Weibull and Jun Chen Jun Chen: Private versus Public
Monopoly
* 9: Hodaka Morita: U.S.-Japanese Differences in Employment Practices:
New Explanations and Predictions
* 10: Patrick M. Emerson: On Quality Traps and Economic Development
* 11: Namrata Gulati and Tridip Ray: Inequality and Neighbourhood
Effects: Market Access and Welfare of the Poor
* 12: John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee and Amanda Cabacungan: The Great
Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans
Approaching Retirement Age
* 13: A.V. Chari, Annemie Maertens, and Sinduja Srinivasan: Does Rising
Inequality Delay Marriage? Evidence from India
* 14: Garance Genicot, Annea-Mariea Mayda and Mariapia Mendola: The
Impact of Migration on Child Labour: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
* Governance and Institutions
* 15: Avinash Dixit: Relation-Based Governance and Competition
* 16: Clive Bell: Labour and Tenancy in Retrospect: Two Bihari Villages
in 1970
* 17: Nirvikar Singh: Holding India Together: The Role of Institutions
of Federalism
* 18: Ashwini Deshpande: The Dividend of Diversity for India's
Corporate Sector
* 19: Eduardo Zambrano: A 'Rights-Based' Approach to Optimal Tax Policy
* 20: Ajit Mishra: The Many Faces of Corruption: Which One(s) to
Target?