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Title Arguments for a better world. Vol. 2, Societies, institutions, and development : essays in honor of Amartya Sen / edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITIES; PART II: GENDER AND THE HOUSEHOLD; PART III: GROWTH, POVERTY AND POLICY; PART IV: SOCIETY, POLITICS AND HISTORY; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
Summary This volume of essays, written in honor of Amartya Sen, covers the range of contributions that Sen has made to knowledge. They are written by some of the world's leading economists, philosophers and social scientists, and address topics such as ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human development, society, and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Welfare economics.
Institutional economics.
Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects
Institutional economics
Welfare economics
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Basu, Kaushik.
Kanbur, S. M. Ravi, 1954-
Sen, Amartya, 1933-
ISBN 9780191553714
0191553719
9780199239993
0199239991
9780199239979
0199239975
Other Titles Essays in honor of Amartya Sen
Societies, institutions, and development