Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the concept of development. It is not hard to see
why the concept of development is so essential to economics in general. Economic …

… Sen uses the discipline of social choice theory (a subject he has helped to … Sen's previously
unpublished Arrow Lectures included here. The essays in these volumes contribute to Sen's …

There is increased recognition by the world’s scientific, industrial, and political communities
that the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere, particularly CO2, are …

Capability is not an awfully attractive word. It has a technocratic sound, and to some it might
even suggest the image of nuclear war strategists rubbing their hands in pleasure over some …

We present several pieces of evidence for strong–weak coupling duality symmetry in the
heterotic string theory, compactified on a six-dimensional torus. They include symmetry of the (1…

Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been recognized for its groundbreaking
role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of …

" The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in
particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the'entitlement approach'--…

In this classic text, first published in 1973, Amartya Sen relates the theory of welfare economics
to the study of economic inequality. He presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual …

John Dryden wrote in 1698, in the Epistle to Peter Antony Motteux,‘‘Words, once my stock,
are wanting to commend/So great a poet and so good a friend.’’It is not easy to talk about a …

The primary aim of this paper is to propose a new measure of poverty, which should avoid
some of the shortcomings of the measures currently in use. An axiomatic approach is used to …