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Essays in economics and other cheerful themes : a dismal scientist's occasional reflections of the world around him
- Title
- Essays in economics and other cheerful themes : a dismal scientist's occasional reflections of the world around him / S. Subramanian.
- Author
- Subramanian, S. (Professor)
- Publication
- New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2014.
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| Text | Request in advance | HB171 .S935 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 203 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Well-being and the world today -- Global poverty, inequality, and aid flows : a rough guide to some simple justice -- The status of the child in India -- Human development and human rights -- Inclusive development and the quintile income statistic -- Reprisal without rectitude -- Moral catastrophes and immoral reasoning -- Looking back and ahead -- Examining the creamy layer principle -- On headcount poverty comparisons -- Thinking through justice -- Are egalitarians really vulnerable to the levelling-down objection and the divided -- Can we possibly subscribe to both liberty and equality at one and the same time? -- A curmudgeon's complaints -- Jai ho, jeeves! an advanced sociological analysis of slumdog millionaire -- Language and representation or, more modestly, mathematical economics and poverty -- Writing economics in exactly 300 words: two samples in the tradition of J.B. Morton (beachcomber).
- ISBN
- 9788132113737 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 813211373X (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014022896
- OCLC
- ocn883650458
- 883650458
- SCSB-5818505
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries