Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the poor, and for plurality in cultural perspective. It is not surprising that he has won the highest awards, ranging from the Nobel Prize in Economics to the Bharat Ratna, Indias highest civilian honor. This public recognition has gone hand in hand with the affection and admiration that Amartyas friends and students hold for him. This volume of essays, written in honor of his 75th birthday by his students and peers, covers the range of contributions that Sen has made to knowledge. They are written by some of the worlds leading economists, philosophers and social scientists, and address topics such as ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human development, society and politics.
The second volume covers the topics of Human Development and Capabilities; Gender and Household; Growth, Poverty and Policy; and Society, Politics and History. It is a fitting tribute to Sens own contributions to the discourse on Society, Institutions and Development. Contributors include: Bina Agarwal, Isher Ahluwalia, Montek S Ahluwalia, Ingela Alger, Muhammad Asali, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Pranab Bardhan, Lourdes Beneria, Sugata Bose, Lincoln C. Chen, Martha Alter Chen, Kanchan Chopra, Simon Dietz, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Jonathan Glover, Cameron Hepburn, Jane Humphries, Rizwanul Islam, Ayesha Jalal, Mary Kaldor, Sunil Khilnani, Stephan Klasen, Jocelyn Kynch, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Kirsty McNay, Martha C. Nussbaum, Elinor Ostrom, Gustav Ranis, Sanjay G. Reddy, Emma Samman, Rehman Sobhan, Robert M. Solow, Nicholas Stern, Frances Stewart, Ashutosh Varshney, Sujata Visaria, and Jorgen W. Weibull.
PART I HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITIES ; 1. Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty Based on a Capability Approach ; 2. The Capability Approach and Political Economy of Human Development ; 3. India-China: "The Art of Prolonging Life" ; 4. Sustainable Human Well-being: An Interpretation of Capability Enhancement from a Stakeholders and Systems Perspective ; 5. Human Rights and Human Development ; 6. Entitlements and Capabilities: Young People in Post-Industrial Wales ; 7. Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions of Human Development ; 8. Poverty and Famines: An Extension ; PART II GENDER AND HOUSEHOLD ; 9. Engaging with Sen on Gender Relations: Cooperative Conflicts, False Perceptions and Relative Capabilities ; 10. Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism ; 11. From "Harmony" to "Cooperative Conflicts" Amartya Sens Contribution to Household Theory ; 12. Famine, Widowhood, and Paid Work: Seeking Gender Justice in South Asia ; 13. Time and Income: Empirical Evidence on Gender Poverty and Inequalities from a Capability Perspective ; 14. Death and Gender in Victorian England ; 15. Missing Women: Some Recent Controversies on Levels and Trends in Gender Bias in Mortality ; PART III GROWTH, POVERTY AND POLICY ; 16. Challenges of Economic Development in Punjab ; 17. Growth, Distribution and Inclusiveness: Reflections on Indias Experience ; 18. Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India ; 19. Economics, Ethics and Climate Change ; 20. Has Development and Employment through Labour-Intensive Industrialization Become History? ; 21. Imposed Environmental Standards and International Trade ; PART IV SOCIETY, POLITICS AND HISTORY ; 22. Pondering Poverty, Fighting Famines: Towards a New History of Economic Ideas ; 23. Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion ; 24. Freedom and Equality: From Iqbals Philosophy to Sens Ethical Concerns ; 25. Protective Security or Protection Rackets? War and Sovereignty ; 26. Democracy and its Indian Pasts ; 27. The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right ; 28. Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities ; 29. Agents into Principals: Democratizing Development in South Asia