Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, best known for his work on famine, human development and welfare economics, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998. This is a five-volume collection of the key critical assessments of Amartya Sen.

This new Major Work from Routledge is a five-volume collection of the key critical assessments of Amartya Sen (b. 1933), probably best known for his work on famine, human development and welfare economics. Sen is one of the few modern academics who has commanded much respect and recognition from across the intellectual spectrum. His work - for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 - simultaneously embraces social choice theory and economic development, thus breaking the barrier between mathematized 'high theory' and 'real world' economics. With an introduction newly written by the editor that places the collected work in its intellectual and historical context, this collection is destined to be welcomed as an invaluable resource for both reference purposes and as a contribution to the study of Amartya Sen.

VOLUME I
Introduction
Part 1--By Sen
1. Amartya K. Sen, 'A possibility theorem on majority decisions', "Econometrica", 34, 2, 1966, pp. 491--9
2. Amartya K. Sen, 'Quasi-transivity, rational choice and collective decisions', "Review of Economic Studies", 36, 1969, pp. 381--92
3. Amartya K. Sen and Prasanta K. Pattanaik, 'Necessary and sufficient conditions for rational choice under major decision', "Journal of Economic Theory", 1, 1969, pp. 178--202
4. Amartya K. Sen, 'Choice functions and revealed preference', "The Review of Economic Studies", 38, 3, 1971, pp. 307--17
5. Amartya K. Sen, 'Behavior and the concept of preference', "Economica", 40, 159, 1973, pp. 241--59
6. Amartya K. Sen, 'Social choice theory: A re-examination', "Econometrica", 45, 1, 1977, pp. 53--89
7. Amartya K. Sen, 'Rational fools: A critique of the behavioral foundations of economic theory', "Philosophy"" and Public Affairs", 6, 4, 1977, pp. 317--44
8. Amartya K. Sen, 'On weights and measures: Information constraints in social welfare analysis', "Econometrica", 45, 7, 1977, pp. 1539--72
9. Amartya K. Sen, 'The welfare basis of real income comparisons: a survey', "Journal of Economic Literature", 17, 1, 1979, pp. 1--45
10. Yew-Kwang Ng, 'Welfarism: A defence against Sen's attack', "The Economic Journal", 91, 362, 1981, pp. 527--30
11. Amartya K. Sen, 'A reply to "Welfarism: A defence against Sen's attack"', "The Economic Journal", 91, 1981 pp. 531--5
12. Amartya K. Sen, 'Liberty and social choice', "The ""Journal"" of Philosophy", 80, 1, 1983, pp. 5--28
13. Amartya K. Sen, 'Well-being, agency and freedom: The Dewey lectures', "The ""Journal"" of Philosophy", 82, 4, 1985, pp. 169--221
14. Amartya K. Sen, 'Goals, commitment and identity', "Journal of Law, ""Economics and Organization", 1, 2, 1985, pp. 341--55
15. Amartya K. Sen, 'Internal consistency of choice', "Econometrica", 61, 3, 1993, pp. 495--521
16. Amartya K. Sen, 'Markets and freedoms: Achievements and limitations of the market mechanism in promoting individual freedoms', "Oxford Economic Papers", 45, 4, 1993, pp. 519--41
17. Amartya K. Sen, 'The formulation of rational choice', "The American Economic Review", 84, 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, 1994, pp. 385--90
18. Amartya K. Sen, 'Amiya Kumar Dasgupta (1903--1992)', "The American Economic Journal", 104, 426, 1994, pp. 1147--55
19. Amartya K. Sen, Rationality and social choice', "The American Economic Review", 85, 1, 1995, pp. 1--24
20. Amartya K. Sen, 'How to judge voting schemes', "The Journal of Economic Perspectives", 9, 1, 1995, pp. 91--8
21. Amartya K. Sen, 'Maximization and the act of choice', "Econometrica", 65, 4, 1997, pp. 745--79
22. Amartya K. Sen, 'The possibility of social choice', "The American Economic Review", 89, 3, 1999, pp. 349--78
VOLUME II
Part 2--General
23. Arjo Klamer, 'A conversation with Amartya Sen', "The Journal of Economic Perspectives", 3, 1, 1989, pp. 135--40
24. Robert Sugden, 'Welfare, resources, and capabilities: A review of inequality reexamined by Amartya Sen', "Journal of Economic Literature", 31, 4, 1993, 1947--63
25. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 'Amartya Kumar Sen and the human science of development', "Economic and Political Weekly", 33, 49, 1998, pp. 3139--50
26. Anthony B. Atkinson, 'The contributions of Amartya Sen to welfare economics', "Scandinavian Journal of Economics", 101, 2, 1999, pp. 173--90
27. Ashima Goyal, 'Interpreting Amartya Sen's work', "Economic and Political Weekly", 34, 15, 1999, pp. 928ff.
28. Anon, 'Amartya Sen', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 1--2
29. Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries and Ingrid Robeyns, 'Exploring the challenges of Amartya Sen's work and ideas: An introduction', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 3--12
30. Sakiko Fakuda-Parr, 'The Human Development paradigm: Operationalizing Sen's ideas on capabilities', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 301--17
31. Isaac Levi, 'Amartya Sen', "Synthese", 140, 1--2, pp. 61--7
Part 3--Development, Including Food and Health
32. David A. Crocker, 'Functioning and capability: The foundations of Sen's and Nussbaum's development ethic', "Political Theory", 20, 4, 1992, pp. 584--612
33. Paul Streeten, 'Human development: Means and ends', "The American Economic Review", 84, 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, 1994, pp. 232--7
34. Mozaffar Qizilbash, 'Capabilities, well-being and human development: A survey', "Journal of Development Studies", 33, 2, 1996, pp. 143--62
35. Jenny Edkins, 'Legality with a vengeance: Famines and humanitarian relief in "complex emergencies"', "Millennium Journal of International Studies", 25, 3, 1996, pp. 547--75
36. Martin Ravallion, 'Famines and economics', "Journal of Economic Literature", 35, 3, 1997, pp. 1205--42
37. James E. Foster, 'Absolute versus relative poverty', "The American Economic Review", 88, 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, 1998, pp. 335--41
38. E. A. Wrigley, 'Corn and crisis: Malthus on the high price of provisions', "Population and Development Review", 25, 1, 1999, 121--8
39. Shyam J. Kamath, 'Indian development and poverty: Making sense of Sen et al.', "Critical Review", 13, 3--4, 1999, pp. 315--36
40. Vicente Navarro, 'Development and quality of life: A critique of Amartya Sen's "Development as Freedom', International Journal of Health Services", 30, 4, 2000, pp. 661--74
41. Richard N. Cooper, 'The road from serfdom: Amartya Sen argues that growth is not enough', "Foreign Affairs", 79, 1, 2000, pp. 163--7
42. Paul Streeten, 'Freedom and welfare: A review essay on Amartya Sen, "Development as Freedom"', "Population and Development Review", 26, 1, pp. 153--62
43. Brigitte Granville, 'Freedom's charm', "World Today", 56, 3, pp. 23--4
44. Christina H. Gladwin, Anne M. Thomson, Jennifer S. Peterson and Andrea S. Anderson, 'Addressing food security in Africa via multiple livelihood strategies of women farmers', "Food Policy", 26, 2, 2001, pp. 177--207
45. Katherine L. Frohlich, Ellen Corin and Louise Potvin, 'A theoretical proposal for the relationship between context and disease', "Sociology of Health and Illness", 23, 6, 2001, pp. 776--97
46. Peter Evans, 'Collective capabilities, culture, and Amartya Sen's "Development as Freedom', Studies in Comparative International Development", 37, 2, 2002, pp. 54--60
47. Frances Stewart and Severine Deneulin, 'Amartya Sen's contribution to development thinking', "Studies in Comparative International Development", 37, 2, 2002, pp. 61--70
48. Alan Williams, 'Comment on Amartya Sen's "why health equity"', "Health Economics", 12, 1, 2003, pp. 65--6
49. Marianne T. Hill, 'Development as empowerment', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 117--35
50. Des Gasper and Irene van Staveren, 'Development as freedom: And as what else?', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 137--61
51. Mark B. Tauger, 'Entitlement, shortage and the 1943 Bengal famine: Another look', "Journal of Peasant Studies", 31, 1, 2003, pp. 45--72
52. Markku Lehtonen, 'The environmental--social interface of sustainable development capabilities, social capital, institutions', "Ecological Economics", 49, 2, 2004, pp. 199--214
VOLUME III
Part 4--Gender
53. Des Gasper, 'Culture and development ethics: Needs, women's rights, and western theories', "Development and Change", 27, 4, 1996, pp. 627--61
54. Douglas A. Hicks, 'Gender, discrimination, and capability: Insights from Amartya Sen', "Journal of Religious Ethics", 30, 1, 2002, pp. 137--54
55. Stephen Klasen and Claudia Wink, 'A turning point in gender bias in mortality? An update on the number of missing women', "Population and Development Review", 28, 2, 2002, pp. 285--312
56. Fabienne Peter, 'Gender and the foundations of social choice: The role of situated agency', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 13--32
57. Martha C. Nussbaum, 'Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice', "Feminist Economics, "9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 33--59
58. Ingrod Robeyns, 'Sen's capability approach and gender inequality: Selecting relevant capabilities', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 61--92
59. Vegard Iversen, 'Intra-household inequality: A challenge for the capability approach?', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 93--115
60. Austreberta Nazar Beutelspacher, Emma Zapata Martelo and Veronica Vazquez Garcia, 'Does contraception benefit women? Structure, agency, and well-being in rural Mexico', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 213--38
61. Stephen Klasen and Claudia Wink, '"Missing women": Revisiting the debate', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 263--99
VOLUME IV
Part 5--Politics and Ethics
62. John Christman, 'Constructing the inner citadel: Recent work on the concept of autonomy', "Ethics", 99, 1988, pp. 109--24
63. Robert Grafstein, 'Missing the archimedean point: Liberalism's institutional presuppositions', "American Political Science Review", 84, 1, 1990, pp. 177--93
64. Charles Gore, 'Entitlement relations and unruly social practices: A comment on the work of Amartya Sen', "Journal of Development Studies", 20, 3, pp. 429--60
65. Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson, 'Taking ethics seriously: Economics and contemporary moral philosophy', "Journal of Economic Literature", 31, 2, 1993, pp. 671--731
66. William James Booth, 'On the idea of the moral economy', "The American Political Science Review", 88, 3, 1994, pp. 653--67
67. Julie A. Nelson, 'Feminism and economics', "The Journal of Economic Perspectives", 9, 2, 1995, pp. 131--48
68. Shira B. Lewin, 'Economic and psychology: Lessons for our own day from the early twentieth century', "Journal of Economic Literature", 34, 3, pp. 1293--323
69. Anon, 'Introduction: Social policy and social protection', "International Labour Review", 139, 2, 2000, pp. 113--17
70. Jerry Evensky, 'Adam Smith's lost legacy', "Southern Economic Journal", 67, 3, 2001, pp. 497--517
71. Philip Pettit, 'Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy: 1. Capability and freedom: A defence of Sen', "Economics and Philosophy", 17, 1, 2001, pp. 1--20
72. Elizabeth Anderson, 'Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy: 2. Unstrapping the straitjacket of "preference": A comment on Amartya Sen's contributions to philosophy and economics', "Economics and Philosophy", 17, 1, 2001, pp. 21--38
73. T. M. Scanlon, 'Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy: 3. Sen and consequentialism', "Economics and Philosophy", 17, 1, 2001, pp. 39--50
74. Amartya Sen, Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy: 4. Reply', "Economics and Philosophy", 17, 1, 2001, pp. 51--66
75. Jamie La Nauze, 'Our responsibility in a developing world: From ethics to pragmatism', "Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology", 30, 2, 2002, pp. 66--71
76. Harlan Beckley, 'Capability as opportunity: How Amartya Sen revises equal opportunity', "Journal of Religious Ethics", 30, 1, 2002, pp. 107--35
77. Elizabeth Anderson, Sen, ethics, and democracy', "Feminist Economics", 9, 2--3, 2003, pp. 239--61
VOLUME V
Part 6--Equations and Applications
78. Michael Taylor, 'Mathematical political theory', "British Journal of Political Science", 1, 3, 1971, pp. 339--82
79. Robert A. Pollak, 'Bergson-Samuelson social welfare functions and the theory of social choice', "The Quarterly Journal of Economics", 93, 1, 1979, pp. 79--90
80. Larry G. Epstien and Uzi Segal, 'Quadratic social welfare functions', "The Journal of Political Economy", 100, 4, 1992, pp. 691--712
81. Steven T. Buccola and Chrispen Sukume, 'Social welfare of alternative controlled-price policies', "The Review of Economics and Statistics", 75, 1, 1993, pp. 86--96
82. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura, 'Rights, welfarism, and social choice', "The American Economic Review", 84, 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, 1994, pp. 435--9
83. Grzegorz Lissowski and Piotr Swistak, 'Choosing the best social order: New principles of justice and normative dimensions of choice', "The American Political Science Review", 89, 1, 1995, pp. 74--96
84. Paul Clements, 'Poverty-oriented cost-benefit approach to the analysis of development-projects', "World Development", 23, 4, 1995, pp. 577--92
85. Nicholas Garnham, 'Amartya Sen's "capabilities" approach to the evaluation of welfare: Its application to communications', "Javnost-the Public", 4, 4, 1997, pp. 25--34
86. Robert H. Frank, 'The frame of reference as a public good', "The Economic Journal", 107, 445, 1997, pp. 1932--47
87. Bhaskar Dutta, 'Amartya Sen and the mathematics of collective choice', "Current Science"," "76, 6, 1999, pp. 726--9
88. Neil S. Siegel, 'Sen and the Hart of jurisprudence: A critique of the economic analysis of judicial behavior', "California Law Review", 87, 6, 1999, pp. 1581--608
89. Elias L. Khalil, 'Sentimental fools: A critique of Amartya Sen's notion of commitment', "Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization", 40, 4, 1999, pp. 373--86
90. A. Ghosal, 'Sen's endowment: Entitlement mapping in development economics--Cybernetic interpretation', "Kybernetes", 29, 5--6, 2000, pp. 680--8
91. John Myles and Garnett Picot, 'Poverty indices and policy analysis', "Review of Income and Wealth", 46, 2, 2000, pp. 161--79
92. Ashish Bose, 'Demography of Himalayan villages: Missing men and lonely women', "Economic and Political Weekly", 35, 27, 2000, pp. 2361--3
93. Howard F. Chang, 'A liberal theory of social welfare: Fairness, utility, and the Pareto principle', "Yale Law Journal", 110, 2, 2000, pp. 173--235
94. M. A. Verkerk, J. J. V. Busschbach and E. D. Karssing, 'Health-related quality of life research and the capability approach of Amartya Sen', "Quality of Life Research", 10, 1, 2001, pp. 49--55
95. Jeremiah Hurley, 'Commentary on "Health-related quality-of-life research and the capability approach of Amartya Sen"', "Quality of Life Research", 10, 1, 2001, pp. 57--8
96. Christian List, 'The impossibility of a paretian republican? Some comments on Pettit and Sen', "Economics and Philosophy", 20, 1, 2004, pp. 65--87