Social values and social indicators : essays in normative economics and measurement

Social values and social indicators : essays in normative economics and measurement / S. Subramanian.

The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in economic analysis. The centrality of values in the collection is not surprising, given that the thematic concerns informing the essays in the book relate principally to methodologic...

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Main Author: Subramanian, S. (Professor of Economics) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Series:Themes in economics (Springer (Firm))
Subjects:
Normative economics.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Social values.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
Normative economics
Social values
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: 'Instrumentalism' and Friedman's Methodology: A Short Objection
  • Chapter 2: A Sort of Paretian Liberalism
  • Chapter 3: Liberty, Equality, and Impossibility: Some General Results in the Space of 'Soft' Preferences
  • Chapter 4: The Arrow Paradox with Fuzzy Preferences
  • Chapter 5: Equality, Priority, and Distributional Judgements
  • Chapter 6: Two Logical and Normative Issues Relating to Measurement in the Social Sciences
  • Chapter 7: Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement
  • Chapter 8: Reckoning Sub-Group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty
  • Chapter 9: Poverty Measurement in the Presence of a 'Group Affiliation' Externality
  • Chapter 10: Revisiting the Normalization Axiom in Poverty Measurement
  • Chapter 11: The Focus Axiom and Poverty: On the Co-existence of Precise Language and Ambiguous Meaning in Economic Measurement
  • Chapter 12: Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth
  • Chapter 13: Revisiting an Old Theme in the Measurement of Inequality and Poverty
  • Chapter 14: Inequality Measurement with Subgroup Decomposability and Level-Sensitivity.

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