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1 online resource (680 pages)
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1st ed.
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9780198287568
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9780191521621
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An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as a seminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating theirincidence
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Intro -- 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
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*9.1 Model of the Peasant Household -- *9.2 Precautionary Motive for Saving -- *9.3 Credit, Insurance, and Agricultural Investment -- *9.4 Why May Credit be Rationed? -- 10. POVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE BASE -- 10.1 The Resource Basis of Rural Production -- 10.2 What Are Environmental Resources? -- 10.3 Needs, Stress, and Carrying Capacity: Land and Water -- 10.4 Environmental Shadow Prices, Project Evaluation, and Net National Product -- 10.5 Markets and their Failure: Unidirectional and Reciprocal Externalities -- 10.6 Property Rights on Land -- 10.7 Public Failure and the Erosion of Local Commons -- 10.8 Work Allocation among Women and Children and the Desirable Locus of Environmental Decisions -- *10. NET NATIONAL PRODUCT IN A DYNAMIC ECONOMY -- *10.1 The Economics of Optimal Control -- *10.2 NNP in a Deterministic Environment -- *10.3 The Hamiltonian and Sustainable Well-Being -- *10.4 Future Uncertainty -- 11. FOOD, CARE, AND WORK: THE HOUSEHOLD AS AN ALLOCATION MECHANISM -- 11.1 Gender Differentials among Adults -- 11.2 Allocations among Girls aod Boys -- 11.3 Bridewealth and Dowry -- 11.4 Regional Patterns of Household Allocations: The Case of India -- 11.5 Marriage and Inheritance in India -- 11.6 Bargaining Theory as a Framework for Household Choice -- 11.7 The Nash Programme: A Formalization -- 11.8 Bargaining vs. Well-Being Maximization within the Household -- *11. AXIOMATIC BARGAINING THEORY -- *11.1 Nash Bargaining Solution -- *11.2 The Kalai-Smorodinsky Bargaining Solution -- 12. FERTILITY AND RESOURCES: THE HOUSEHOLD AS A REPRODUCTIVE UNIT -- 12.1 Income, Fertility, and Food: The Environmentalist's Argument -- 12.2 The Population Problem -- 12.3 Population Externalities: Household versus Societal Reasoning -- 12.4 Birth Control and Female Education -- 12.5 Children as Consumer and Insurance Goods
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12.6 Environmental Degradation, and Children as Producer Goods -- 12.7 Some Special Features of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 12.8 Modelling Fertility Decisions -- 12.9 Allocation Failure and Public Policy -- *12. STRATEGIC COMPLEMENTARITIES IN FERTILITY DECISIONS -- *12.1 Atmospheric Externalities -- *12.2 Why Nash Equilibria? -- 13. POPULATION AND SAVINGS: NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS -- 13.1 Parental Concerns -- 13.2 The Genesis Problem and the Repugnant Conclusion -- 13.3 Is the Repugnant Conclusion Repugnant? -- 13.4 Actual Problems and an Underlying Asymmetry -- 13.5 Rational Ends -- *13. CLASSICAL UTILITARIANISM IN A LIMITED WORLD -- *13.1 The Model -- *13.2 The Solution -- PART IV: UNDERNOURISHMENT AND DESTITUTION -- 14. FOOD NEEDS AND WORK CAPACITY -- 14.1 Complementarities among Nutrients -- 14.2 Nutrition and Infection -- 14.3 Energy Conservation -- 14.4 Energy Requirements, Nutritional Status, and Productivity -- 14.5 Basal Metabolic Rates and Maintenance Requirements -- 14.6 Special Requirements, 1: Growth and Development -- 14.7 Special Requirements, 2: Pregnancy and Lactation -- 14.8 Determinants of Work Capacity and Endurance -- 15. ADAPTATION TO UNDERNOURISHMENT -- 15.1 The International Incidence of Calorie Deficiency -- 15.2 Adaptation: Genetic, Physiological, and Behavioural -- 15.3 Short-Term Adjustment, or Homeostasis -- 15.4 Homeostasis and the Magnitude of Undernourishment -- 15.5 Long-Term Adaptation -- 15.6 Metabolic Disequilibrium -- 15.7 Food Intake, Efficient Productivity, and Stature -- 15.8 Activity Possibility Sets -- 16. INEQUALITY, MALNUTRITION, AND THE DISFRANCHISED -- 16.1 Asset Ownership, Maintenance Costs, and Labour Power -- 16.2 The Labour Market and Involuntary Unemployment -- 16.3 Efficiency Wages and Piece-Rates -- 16.4 Competitive Market Allocations -- 16.5 Development Regimes -- 16.6 Growth with Redistribution
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16.7 Robustness and Extensions -- 16.8 Involuntary Unemployment and Surplus Labour -- 16.9 Who Resists Wage Cuts? -- 16.10 The Appeal of Nutrition-Based Theories of the Labour Market -- *16. ANALYSIS OF ALLOCATION MECHANISMS WHEN NUTRITION AFFECTS PRODUCTIVITY -- *16.1 Characteristics of Equilibrium Allocations in the Timeless World: Proofs -- *16.2 A Two-Class Example -- *16.3 The Speed of 'Trickle-Down' -- *16.4 The Coexistence of Casual and Permanent Labour -- *16.5 Food Distribution within Poor Households -- 17. INCENTIVES AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES -- 17.1 Agrarian Reform -- 17.2 Food Subsidies -- 17.3 Employment Guarantee Schemes and Rural Infrastructure -- 17.4 Community Participation and Credit Facilities -- 17.5 Health and Education -- 17.6 Envoi -- References -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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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 -- 8.3 Avoiding Disasters -- 8.4 Trading in Risks: Pooling and Spreading -- 8.5 Correlated Risks in Agriculture -- 8.6 Reciprocity as a Social Norm in Stationary Environments -- 8.7 Overlapping Generations and the Transmission of Resources -- PART III: THE HOUSEHOLD AND ITS SETTING: EXTENSIONS OF THE STANDARD THEORY -- 9. LAND, LABOUR, SAVINGS, AND CREDIT -- 9.1 The Peasant Household -- 9.2 Credit Constraints and the Organization of Production -- 9.3 Moral Hazard, Wage Labour, and Tenancy -- 9.4 Village Enclaves as Production Units -- 9.5 Land, Labour, and Credit Markets: Observations on Rural India -- 9.6 Agrarian Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 9.7 Consumption as Investment -- 9.8 Lack of Credit among the Assetless -- 9.9 Consumption Smoothing -- 9.10 Unemployment -- *9. HOUSEHOLDS AND CREDIT CONSTRAINTS
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