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Essays in economics and other cheerful themes : a dismal scientist's occasional reflections of the world around him /
Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes is a collection of pieces on economy, polity and society, written by a social scientist over a number of years. The book addresses conceptual and empirical issues in development at both national and global levels. The philosophical bases of these issues...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California :
SAGE,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Brief Guideto the Book; PART I: Of Home and the World; 1
- Well-being and the World Today; 2
- Global Poverty, Inequality, and Aid Flows: A Rough Guide to Some Simple Justice; 3
- The Status of the Child in India; 4
- Human Development and Human Rights; 5
- 'Inclusive Development' and the Quintile Income Statistic; 6
- Reprisal without Rectitude; 7
- Moral Catastrophes and Immoral Reasoning; 8
- Looking Back and Ahead; 9
- Examining the 'Creamy Layer' Principle; PART II
- Between Economics and Philosophy.
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- Headcount Poverty Comparisons11
- Thinking Through Justice; 12
- Are Egalitarians Really Vulnerable to the Levelling-down Objection and the Divided World Example?; 13
- Can We Possibly Subscribe to Both Liberty and Equality at One and the Same Time?; PART III
- Miscellaneous Mistakes; 14
- A Curmudgeon's Complaints; 15
- Jai Ho, Jeeves!; 16
- Language and Representation or, More Modestly, Mathematical Economics and Poverty; 17
- Writing Economics in Exactly 300 Words:Two Samples in the Tradition of J.B. Morton (Beachcomber); About the Author.