An inquiry into well being and destitution.

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