Collected papers in theoretical economics: inter-disciplinary transgressions: political economy, moral philosophy, and economic sociology

This volume is a collection of the author's inter-disciplinary essays straddling several of the social sciences and also the philosophical foundations of economics. Most essays have a development slant and several make explicit reference to India. INDICE: 1.: Introduction; Section I: Methodological Foundations; 2.: Methodological Individualism; 3.: The Empirical Development Economics: Remarks on Its Philosophical Foundations; 4.: Paradoxes of Game Theory; Section II: Moral Philosophy and Ethics; 5.: Coercion, Contact, and the Limits of the Market;6.: Human Rights as Instruments of Emancipation and Economic Development; 7.:The Concept of Equality and Interpersonal Comparisons; 8.: Utilitarianism forInfinite Utility Streams: A New Welfare Criterion and Its Axiomatic Characterization; Section III: Culture, Custom, and Consuetude; 9.: The Growth and Decay of Custom: The Role of the New Institutional Economics in Economic History; 10.: Social Norms and Cooperative Behaviour: Notes from the Hinterland betweenEconomics and Anthropology; 11.: Teacher Truancy in India: The Role of Culture, Norms, and Economic Incentives; 12.: Notes on Evolution, Rationality, and Norms; 13.: Punctuality: A Cultural Trait as Equilibrium; 14.: Racial Conflict and Malignancy of Identity; Section IV: Economic Theory in Society and Polity;15.: Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously-determined Balance of Power; 16.: Unemployment and Wage Rigidity when Labour Supply is a Household Decision; 17.: Women's Economic Roles and Child Survival: The Case of India; 18.: Consumer Cognition and Pricing in the 9's in Oligopolistic Markets; 19.: The Emergence of Isolation and Interlinkage in Rural Markets; 20.: Relief Programmes: When May It be Better to Give Food Instead of Cash; 21.: The International Debt Problem, Credit Rationing, and Loan Pushing; 22.: Globalization and the Politics of international Finance: The Stiglitz Verdict; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806304-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés