Themes in economic analysis: theory, policy and measurement essays in honour of Satish Jain

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Publication details: Routledge 2017 New DelhiDescription: xxv, 383 pISBN:

9781138191334

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330 T4

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. https://www.routledge.com/Themes-in-Economic-Analysis-Theory-policy-and-measurement/Guha-Kundu-Subramanian/p/book/9781138887978

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Table of Contents:

Part I: Institutions and Efficiency
1. Market Failures: Almost Always?
2. Encompassing Interests, Regionalism and Public Investment
3. Bribe Chains in a Police Administration
4. Notes towards Rationality and Institutions

Part II: Choice and Values
5. Characterization of a Second-Best Rationalizable Choice Function with General Domain
6. Domain Condition for Quasi-Transitive Rationalizability

Part III: Law and Economics
7. Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria: When Care is Multi-Dimensional
8. On the Efficiency of (1,2)-Incremental Liability Rules: Some Results
9. On Breach Remedies: Contracting with Bilateral Selfish Investment and Two-Sided Private Information

Part IV: Stratagems and Private Gains
10. Auctions with Ceilings
11. Corruption in Union Leadership

Part V: Development and Policy
12. Alternative Models for Structural Change and Unbalanced Growth
13. Public Expansion of Higher Education and a Dynamic Todaro Paradox

Part VI: Social and Economic Measurement
14. On a Family of Indices for Envy in Situations of Income Inequality
15. On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices
16. Vulnerability to Poverty: An Expected Poverty Index
17. On Literacy Rankings

Part VII: Epilogue
18. The Stability of Binary Social Decision Rules

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.

https://www.routledge.com/Themes-in-Economic-Analysis-Theory-policy-and-measurement/Guha-Kundu-Subramanian/p/book/9781138887978

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