Amartya Sen- Critical assessment of contemporary economists - Wood John Cunningham;Wood Robert D (Routledge London, 2007)
Keywords: Development economics. -- Welfare economics. -- Equations and applications : mathematical political theory, Bergson-Samuelson social welfare functions and theory of social choice, quadratic social welfare functions, social welfare of alternative controlled price polices, rights, welfarism and social choice, choosing best social order - new principles of justice and normative dimensions of choice, poverty oriented cost benefit approach to analysis of development projects, Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to evaluation of welfare- its application to communications -- Frame of reference as public goods, Amartya Sen and mathematics of collective choice, Sen and hart of jurisprudence - critique of economic analysis of judicial behavior, critique of Amartya Sen's notion of commitment, Sen's endowment-entitlement mapping in development economics- cybernetic interpretation, poverty indices and policy analysis, demography of Himalayan villages- missing men and lonely women, liberal theory of social welfare- Fairness, utility and Pareto principle, health related quality of life research and capability approach of Amartya Sen, Commentary on health related quality of life research and capability approach of Amartya Sen, impossibility of a Paretian republican