This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world and is divided into four parts: Hunger in the modern world, Famines ...

The title provides an overview of the key structural issues at the interface of ethics and economics and collection will be welcomed by all those with an interest in economics ...

This book develops some of the most important themes of Sen's works over the last decade. He argues in a rich and subtle approach that we should be concerned with people's ...

The first of three volumes of essays in honour of the distinguished economic theorist Professor Kenneth J. Arrow.

Discusses how standard economics may be improved by an understanding of moral philosophy.

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings ...

First published in 1986, this volume of essays offers an examination of the philosophical foundations of social choice theory, in its context as the outgrowth of welfare ...