An inquiry into well being and destitution.
Dasgupta, Partha
An inquiry into well being and destitution. - xviii, 661 p.
The Commodity Basis of Well-Being -- Political Morality and the State -- The Objects of Social Contracts -- Well-Being: From Theory to Measurement -- The Realization of Well-Being -- Resource Allocation Mechanisms -- Public Goods and Common-Property Resources -- Decentralization and Central Guidance -- Real National Income as a Measure of General Well-Being -- Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms -- Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit -- Households and Credit Constraints -- Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base -- Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy -- Food, Care, and Work: The Household as an Allocation Mechanism -- Axiomatic Bargaining Theory -- Fertility and Resources: The Household as a Reproductive Unit -- Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions -- Population and Savings: Normative Considerations -- Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World -- Food Needs and Work Capacity -- Adaptation to Undernourishment -- Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised -- Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity -- Incentives and Development Policies -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. *6.[2nd]. 7. *7.[2nd]. 8. 9. *9.[2nd]. 10. *10.[2nd]. 11. *11.[2nd]. 12. *12.[2nd]. 13. *13.[2nd]. 14. 15. 16. *16.[2nd]. 17.
0198288352
Poverty--Developing countries
Quality of life--Developing countries
Resource allocation.
Income distribution--Developing countries
Households--Developing countries
Malnutrition--Developing countries
330.91724
An inquiry into well being and destitution. - xviii, 661 p.
The Commodity Basis of Well-Being -- Political Morality and the State -- The Objects of Social Contracts -- Well-Being: From Theory to Measurement -- The Realization of Well-Being -- Resource Allocation Mechanisms -- Public Goods and Common-Property Resources -- Decentralization and Central Guidance -- Real National Income as a Measure of General Well-Being -- Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms -- Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit -- Households and Credit Constraints -- Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base -- Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy -- Food, Care, and Work: The Household as an Allocation Mechanism -- Axiomatic Bargaining Theory -- Fertility and Resources: The Household as a Reproductive Unit -- Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions -- Population and Savings: Normative Considerations -- Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World -- Food Needs and Work Capacity -- Adaptation to Undernourishment -- Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised -- Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity -- Incentives and Development Policies -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. *6.[2nd]. 7. *7.[2nd]. 8. 9. *9.[2nd]. 10. *10.[2nd]. 11. *11.[2nd]. 12. *12.[2nd]. 13. *13.[2nd]. 14. 15. 16. *16.[2nd]. 17.
0198288352
Poverty--Developing countries
Quality of life--Developing countries
Resource allocation.
Income distribution--Developing countries
Households--Developing countries
Malnutrition--Developing countries
330.91724