Development, markets, and institutions
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Development, markets, and institutions
（Collected papers in theoretical economics / Kaushik Basu, v. 1）
Oxford University Press, c2005
Available at 15 libraries
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The field of development economics has witnessed major changes over the last tow or three decades. From being a largely descriptive discipline, it has now become much more rigorous and theoretically well-founded. Kaushik Basu s work has played a significant role in this transformation of development economics, and the present book is a collection of his major papers in the field. Theoretical development is a difficult discipline because it entails the use of good economic theory but at the same time requires that the researcher keep a keen eye-an anthropologist s eye-on reality. This collection illustrates this method of research well as it ranges from commenting on contentious subjects, such as the design of policy to combat child labour, through the role of social norms in explaining why certain unwanted economic institutions persist, to how literacy ought to be measured.
Table of Contents
- I. INTRODUCTION
- PART I. MEASURING DEVELOPMENT
- 2. ON THE GOALS OF DEVELOPMENT
- 3. ON MEASURING LITERACY
- 4. THE GREYING OF POPULATIONS: CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT
- PART II. INSTITUTIONS, NORMS AND POWER
- 5. ONE KIND OF POWER
- 6. A THEORY OF ASSOCIATION: SOCIAL STATUS, PRICES, AND MARKETS
- 7. CIVIL INSTITUTIONS AND EVOLUTION: CONCEPTS, CRITIQUE AND MODELS
- PART III. AGRARIAN ORGANIZATION
- 8. TECHNOLOGICAL STAGNATION, TENURIAL LAWS AND ADVERSE SELECTION
- 9. THE MARKET FOR LAND: AN ANALYSIS OF INTERIM TRANSACTIONS
- 10. DISNEYLAND MONOPOLY, INTERLINKAGE AND USURIOUS INTEREST RATES
- 11. FRAGMENTED DUOPOLY: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO BACKWARD AGRICULTURE
- 12. THE BROTH AND THE COOKS: A THEORY OF SURPLUS LABOUR
- 13. LIMITED LIABILITY AND THE EXISTENCE OF SHARE TENANCY
- PART IV. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS AND CHILD LABOUR
- 14. COMPACTS, CONVENTIONS AND CODES: INITIATIVES FOR HIGHER INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS
- 15. THE ECONOMICS OF CHILD LABOUR
- 16. A NOTE ON MULTIPLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIA W
- ITH CHILD LABOUR
- 17. ON THE INTRIGUING RELATION BETWEEN ADULT MINIMUM WAGE AND CHILD LABOUR
- 18. CHILD LABOUR: CAUSE, CONSEQUENCE, AND CURE, WITH REMARKS ON INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
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