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Themes in economic analysis : theory, policy and measurement : essays in honour of Satish Jain / edited by Subrata Guha, Rajendra Prasad Kundu and S. Subramanian

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New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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1 online resource
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Guha, Subrata, Kundu, Rajen Prasad, Subramanian, S., and Jain, Satish Kumar, 1929-
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Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; PART I Institutions and Efficiency; Chapter 1 Market Failures: Almost Always?; Chapter 2 Encompassing Interests, Regionalism and Public Investment; Chapter 3 Bribe Chains in a Police Administration; Chapter 4 Notes towards Rationality and Institutions; PART II Choice and Values; Chapter 5 Characterisation of a Second-Best Rationalisable Choice Function with General Domain; Chapter 6 Domain Conditions for Quasi-transitive Rationalisability; PART III Law and Economics, Chapter 7 Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria: When Care is MultidimensionalChapter 8 Efficiency of (1, 2)-Incremental Liability Rules: Some Results; Chapter 9 On Breach Remedies: Contracting with Bilateral Selfish Investment and Two-Sided Private Information; PART IV Stratagems and Private Gains; Chapter 10 Auctions with Ceilings; Chapter 11 Corruption in Union Leadership; PART V Development and Policy; Chapter 12 Alternative Models for Structural Change and Unbalanced Growth; Chapter 13 Public Expansion of Higher Education and a Dynamic Todaro Paradox, and PART VI Social and Economic MeasurementChapter 14 On a Family of Indices for Envy in Situations of Income Inequality; Chapter 15 On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices; Chapter 16 Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty: An Expected Poverty Index; Chapter 17 On Literacy Rankings; Epilogue: The Stability of Binary Social Decision Rules
Summary
This book covers diverse themes, including institutions and efficiency, choice and values, law and economics, development and policy, and social and economic measurement. Written in honour of the distinguished economist Satish K. Jain, this compilation of essays should appeal not only to students and researchers of economic theory but also to those interested in the design and evaluation of institutions and policy.
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9781317410836 (electronic bk.)
1317410831 (electronic bk.)
9781138887978
1138887978
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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