TY - BOOK AU - Dasgupta,Partha TI - An inquiry into well being and destitution SN - 0198288352 U1 - 330.91724 PY - 1993/// CY - Oxford PB - Clarendon Press KW - Poverty KW - Developing countries KW - Quality of life KW - Resource allocation KW - Income distribution KW - Households KW - Malnutrition N1 - 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 ER -