Themes in Economic Analysis (eBook, ePUB)

Theory, policy and measurement
Redaktion: Guha, Subrata; Subramanian, S.; Kundu, Rajendra Prasad

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers diverse themes, including institutions and efficiency, choice and values, law and economics, development and policy, and social and economic measurement. Written in honour of the distinguished economist Satish K. Jain, this compilation of essays should appeal not only to students and researchers of economic theory but also to those interested in the design and evaluation of institutions and policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317410829
• Artikelnr.: 43592180

Autorenporträt

Subrata Guha is Associate Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has been associated with research and teaching there since 1999. Rajendra Prasad Kundu is Assistant Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has taught at Jadavpur University and at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. S. Subramanian is an ICSSR National Fellow affiliated with the Madras Institute of Development Studies, from where he retired as a professor. Previously, he was a consultant with the Planning Commission of India and the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, Government of India.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword James W. Friedman. Introduction Part I: Institutions and
Efficiency 1. Market Failures: Almost Always? Anjan Mukherjee 2.
Encompassing Interests, Regionalism and Public Investment Sugato Dasgupta,
Bhaskar Dutta and Kunal Sengupta 3. Bribe Chains in a Police Administration
Amal Sanyal 4. Notes towards Rationality and Institutions Manimay Sengupta
Part II: Choice and Values 5. Characterization of a Second-Best
Rationalizable Choice Function with General Domain Taposik Banerjee 6.
Domain Condition for Quasi-Transitive Rationalizability Debabrata Pal Part
III: Law and Economics 7. Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria: When Care
is Multi-Dimensional Ram Singh 8. On the Efficiency of (1,2)-Incremental
Liability Rules: Some Results Rajendra Kundu 9. On Breach Remedies:
Contracting with Bilateral Selfish Investment and Two-Sided Private
Information Sugata Bag Part IV: Stratagems and Private Gains 10. Auctions
with Ceilings Priyodorshi Banerjee and Archishman Chakraborty 11.
Corruption in Union Leadership Sarbajit Chaudhuri and Krishnendu Ghosh
Dastidar Part V: Development and Policy 12. Alternative Models for
Structural Change and Unbalanced Growth Amitava Bose 13. Public Expansion
of Higher Education and a Dynamic Todaro Paradox Subrata Guha Part VI:
Social and Economic Measurement 14. On a Family of Indices for Envy in
Situations of Income Inequality Ravindra Ranade and Yukie Shimone 15. On a
Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni
and Gini Indices S. Subramanian 16. Vulnerability to Poverty: An Expected
Poverty Index Satya R. Chakravarty and Nachiketa Chattopadhyay 17. On
Literacy Rankings Tapan Mitra Part VII: Epilogue 18. The Stability of
Binary Social Decision Rules Satish K. Jain. About the Editors. Notes on
Contributors. Index