An Inquiry Into Well-Being and Destitution

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. First paperback edition. Paperback. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, large faint crease to spine, very gentle rubbing to corners, light soiling to fore-edges, 4 and half inch crease to rear cover, sparse pencil underlines and notes to few pages throughout book, else Very Good(+).. Black-red octavo, xviii, 661 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. Publisher sticker to rear cover. An interdisciplinary study of what is broadly development economics, but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophy, research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science and anthropology. It deals with the problem of poverty - its causes and remedies. Contents: 1. The Commodity Basis of Well-Being -- 2. Political Morality and the State -- 3. The Objects of Social Contracts -- 4. Well-Being: From Theory to Measurement -- 5. The Realization of Well-Being -- 6. Resource Allocation Mechanisms -- *6.[2nd]. Public Goods and Common-Property Resources -- 7. Decentralization and Central Guidance -- *7.[2nd]. Real National Income as a Measure of General Well-Being -- 8. Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms -- 9. Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit -- *9.[2nd]. Households and Credit Constraints -- 10. Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base -- *10.[2nd]. Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy -- 11. Food, Care, and Work: The Household as an Allocation Mechanism -- *11.[2nd]. Axiomatic Bargaining Theory -- 12. Fertility and Resources: The Household as a Reproductive Unit -- *12.[2nd]. Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions -- 13. Population and Savings: Normative Considerations -- *13.[2nd]. Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World.; 14. Food Needs and Work Capacity -- 15. Adaptation to Undernourishment -- 16. Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised -- *16.[2nd]. Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity -- 17. Incentives and Development Policies. Poverty -- Developing countries.