CONTENTS List of Figures viii List of Tables x List of Contributors xii Introduction 1 PART IETHICS, NORMATIVE ECONOMICS AND WELFARE 1. Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory 7 JOHN BROOME 2. The Sen System of Social Evaluation 15 S. R. OSMANI 3. The Good Life and the Good Economy: The Humanist Perspective of Aristotle, the Pragmatists and the Vitalists, and the Economic Justice of John Rawls 35 EDMUND S. PHELPS 4- The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics 50 MOZAFFAR QlZILBASH 5. Rights and Interests 68 T. M. SCANLON 6. Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development 80 ARJUN SENGUPTA PART IIAGENCY, AGGREGATION AND SOCIAL CHOICE 7. Rational Choice on General Domains 103 WALTER BOSSERT AND KOTARO SUZUMURA 8. Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams 136 BHASKAR DUTTA 9. Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: A Procedural Approach 148 WULF GAERTNER AND YONGSHENG Xu 10. The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions 167 SATISH K. JAIN 11. Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus 193 ISAAC LEV I 12. Rights, Individual Preferences and Collective Rationality 213 PRASANTA K. PATTANAIK 13. Irrelevant Alternatives 231 KEVIN ROBERTS 14. Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules 250 MAURICE SALLES 15. Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism 262 ALAIN TRANNOY AND JOHN A. WEYMARK PART III POVERTY, CAPABILITIES AND MEASUREMENT 16. The Measurement of Capabilities 283 PAUL ANAND, CRISTINA SANTOS AND RON SMITH 17. On Ultrapoverty 311 SUDHIR ANAND, CHRISTOPHER HARRIS AND OLIVER LINTON 18. Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications 337 FRANCOIS BOURGUIGNON AND SATYA R. CHAKRAVARTY 19. External Capabilities 362 JAMES E. FOSTER AND CHRISTOPHER HANDY 20. On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines 375 MARTIN RAVALLION 21. Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach 397 INGRID ROBEYNS 22. Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesizing Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis 414 ANTHONY SHORROCKS AND GUANGHUA WAN 23. A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty 435 S. &UBRAMANIAN PART IV IDENTITY, COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS 24. Concepts and Measures of Agency 455 SABINA ALKIRE 25. Sen's Identities 475 KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH 26. Welfare Economics and Giving for Development 489 A. B. ATKINSON 27. Justice, Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project 501 RAJAT DEB, INDRAIL K. GHOSH AND TAB KUN SEO 28. Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality? 523 PETER HAMMOND 29. Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality 535 JOSEPH E. STIGUTZ Index of Names 567 Index of Subjects 573