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Author:   S Subramanian
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9788132113737

ISBN 10:   813211373
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: A Brief Guide to the Book I: OF HOME AND THE WORLD Global Deprivation and Disparity Well-being and the World Today Global Poverty, Inequality and Aid Flows: A Rough Guide to Some Simple Justice Domestic Deprivation and Disparity The Status of the Child in India Human Development and Human Rights ‘Inclusive Development’ and the Quintile Income Statistic Polity and Society Reprisal without Rectitude Moral Catastrophes and Immoral Reasoning Looking Back and Ahead Examining the ′Creamy Layer′ Principle II. BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY Headcount Poverty Comparisons Thinking Through Justice Are Egalitarians Really Vulnerable to the Levelling-down Objection and the Divided World Example? Can We Possibly Subscribe to Both Liberty and Equality at One and the Same Time? III. MISCALLANEOUS MISTAKES 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’)

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S. Subramanian is Former Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS). He has been awarded a post-retirement, two-year National Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). An elected Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), Subramanian has worked extensively on measurement and other aspects of poverty, inequality, and demography, and on topics in collective choice theory, welfare economics and development economics. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Economics and Philosophy, Social Choice and Welfare, and Theory and Decision. He is the recipient (along with his co-author) of the 2001 Dudley Seers Memorial Prize awarded to the best article published in the Journal of Development Studies. An established scholar in poverty and inequality, he has edited/authored the following titles: • Themes in Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Adiseshiah, New Delhi.  • Measurement of Inequality and Poverty (Readers in Economics Series), New Delhi. Illfare in India: Essays on India’s Social Sector in Honour of S.     Guhan (with Barbara Harriss-White), Delhi: SAGE Publications, 1999. • India’s Development Experience: Selected Writings of S. Guhan, New Delhi. Rights, Deprivation, and Disparity: Essays in Concepts and    Measurement (Collected Essays Series), New Delhi. • Poverty, Inequality, and Population: Essays in Development and Applied Measurement (with D. Jayaraj), New Delhi. (paperback edition: 2012). • The Poverty Line (Oxford India Short Introductions Series), New Delhi.  

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