Resources, Values and Development

✍ Scribed by Amartya Sen

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Leaves: 550
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen’s path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, investment planning, shadow pricing, employment policy, and welfare economics.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Institutions and Motivation
1 Peasants and Dualism with or without Surplus Labour
2 Labour Allocation in a Cooperative Enterprise
3 The Profit Motive

Part II: Isolation and Social Investment
4 On Optimizing the Rate of Saving
5 Isolation, Assurance and the Social Rate of Discount
6 Terminal Capital and Optimum Savings
7 On Some Debates in Capital Theory
8 Approaches to to the Choice of Discount Rates for Social Benefit-Cost Analysis

Part III: Shadow Pricing and Employment
9 Optimum Savings, Technical Choice and the Shadow Price of Labour
10 Control Areas and Accounting Prices: An Approach to Economic Evaluation
11 Employment, Institutions and Technology: Some Policy Issues

Part IV: Morals and Mores
12 Ethical Issues in Income Distribution: National and International
13 Rights and Capabilities
14 Poor, Relatively Speaking
15 Family and Food: Sex Bias in Poverty
16 Economics and the Family

Part V: Goods and Well-being
17 The Welfare Basis of Real Income Comparisons
18 Ingredients of Famine Analysis: Availability and Entitlements
19 Development: Which Way Now?
20 Goods and People

Name Index

Subject Index

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