An inquiry into well-being and destitution
Partha Dasgupta
| Year of publication: |
1993
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| Authors: | Dasgupta, Partha |
| Publisher: |
Oxford : Clarendon Press |
| Subject: | Lebensqualität | Quality of life | Armut | Poverty | Privater Haushalt | Household | Wohlfahrtsökonomik | Welfare economics | Theorie | Theory | Entwicklungsländer | Developing countries | Haushaltsökonomik | Household economics | Unterernährung | Undernutrition |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (xviii, 661 p) ill |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [546]-625) and indexes ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""PART I: WELL-BEING: THEORY AND REALIZATION""; ""1. THE COMMODITY BASIS OF WELL-BEING""; ""1.1 Welfare and Freedoms""; ""1.2 Facts and Values in the Phenomenon of Destitution""; ""1.3 Destitution as a Resource Allocation Problem""; ""1.4 The Effects of Ill-Health""; ""1.5 Institutions and Agency Roles""; ""1.6 Theory and Policy""; ""2. POLITICAL MORALITY AND THE STATE""; ""2.1 The Government as an Agency""; ""2.2 Acts and their Consequences""; ""2.3 Utility and Rights: Public Judgements and Aggregative Evaluations of Well-Being""; ""2.4 Commodity Needs"" ""2.5 Freedom and Rights: Positive and Negative""""2.6 Impersonality and the Public Sphere""; ""3. THE OBJECTS OF SOCIAL CONTRACTS""; ""3.1 Rules versus Discretion""; ""3.2 Outcome- versus Resource-Based Evaluative Principles""; ""3.3 Political Competition and Civil Liberties""; ""3.4 Motivation and Choice""; ""3.5 Social Systems: A Formulation""; ""3.6 Contractual and Optimization Theories""; ""3.7 Ex Post Equilibria and Ex Ante Contracts""; ""3.8 Measures of Freedom""; ""3.9 Social Well-Being Functions""; ""3.10 Efficiency, Equality, and the Problem of Implementation"" ""4. WELL-BEING: FROM THEORY TO MEASUREMENT""""4.1 Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being""; ""4.2 Income""; ""4.3 Health, 1: Anthropometric Measures""; ""4.4 Health, 2: Mortality Indices""; ""4.5 Health, 3: Morbidity""; ""4.6 Education: Numeracy and Literacy""; ""5. THE REALIZATION OF WELL-BEING""; ""5.1 Citizenship: Civil, Political, and Socio-Economic""; ""5.2 Inter-Country Comparison of the Quality of Life""; ""5.3 Political and Civil Liberties versus Economic Progress: Is There a Trade-Off?""; ""5.4 Wars and Strife""; ""5.5 Inequalities""; ""5.6 The Point of Cross-Country Studies"" ""Appendix: Political and Civil Rights Indices""""PART II: ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES AMONG HOUSEHOLDS: THE STANDARD THEORY""; ""6. RESOURCE ALLOCATION MECHANISMS""; ""6.1 Resources and Property Rights""; ""6.2 Markets and Market Mechanisms""; ""6.3 Culture and Market Transactions""; ""6.4 Externalities: Public Goods and Common Property Resources""; ""6.5 Infrastructure and Fixed Costs""; ""6.6 Private and Public Realms, and Private and Collective Goods""; ""6.7 Knowledge, Organization, and Economic Growth""; ""*6. PUBLIC GOODS AND COMMON-PROPERTY RESOURCES""; ""*6.1 The Theory of Public Goods"" ""*6.2 The Problem of the Commons""""7. DECENTRALIZATION AND CENTRAL GUIDANCE""; ""7.1 Competitive Mechanisms in the Private Realm""; ""7.2 Existence of Competitive Equilibrium""; ""7.3 Competitive Markets and Efficiency""; ""7.4 The implementation of Just Allocations in the Private Realm""; ""7.5 Pluralism and Exchange Restrictions in the Public Realm""; ""7.6 Producer versus Consumer Taxation""; ""7.7 National Income in a Pluralist Society""; ""*7. REAL NATIONAL INCOME AS A MEASURE OF GENERAL WELL-BEING""; ""8. UNCERTAINTY, INSURANCE, AND SOCIAL NORMS""; ""8.1 Environmental Uncertainty"" ""8.2 Choice under Uncertainty and Risk Aversion"" |
| ISBN: | 1-281-97055-7 ; 978-1-281-97055-8 ; 978-0-19-152162-1 ; 1-281-96917-6 ; 978-0-19-924123-1 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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