| Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes: A Dismal Scientist's Occasional Reflections on the World Around Him Contributor(s): Subramanian, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 813211373X ISBN-13: 9788132113737 Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions |
| Dewey: 330.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes is a collection of pieces on economy, polity and society, written by a social scientist over a number of years. The book addresses conceptual and empirical issues in development at both national and global levels. The philosophical bases of these issues are sought to be addressed in relatively non-technical and accessible terms. The book also makes space for essays that deal with less solemn phenomena, such as cricket, film, the conduct of academic institutions, and the esoteric excesses of scholarly writing in the social sciences and humanities. The book is something of a professional economist's ramble through territory that is both familiar and important to him, but undertaken in a spirit of some leisureliness which the author hopes will attract a readership beyond that, solely, of fellow-professionals. Written primarily with the non-specialist reader in mind, these essays aim to be of interest to younger students, policy-makers, and involved and interested 'lay' citizens. |
Contributor Bio(s): Subramanian, S.: - 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. |