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34A Paretian liberal dilemma without collective rationalityTheory and Decision 37 (3): 323-332. 1994.
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7The Iniquity of Money-Metric Poverty in IndiaBasic Income Studies 12 (1). 2017.This paper is concerned to make three points about money-metric poverty in India: first, that the standard poverty-line approach to measuring poverty considerably underestimates poverty, and that the particular protocols by which India’s official poverty lines are determined are arbitrary and misleading; second, that a view of poverty in which the achievement of a satisfactory level of income is seen as a valuable end in itself, and which is captured in something like Kaushik Basu’s ‘quintile in…Read more
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A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income PovertyIn Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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12Review of Valentin Beck, Henning Hahn, and Robert Lepenies’ (eds.) Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism. Cham: Springer, 2020, 412 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 13 (2). 2021.
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14Jeeves Resumes ChargePhilosophy and Literature 44 (2): 495-500. 2020.The following is a sequel to the narrative "Jeeves Takes Charge," first published in the Saturday Evening Post of November 1916, in which Lady Florence Craye is reported to have plans for getting Bertie Wooster to read Nietzsche. The threat, in the present account, is executed. While it is not clear if the provenance of this sequel can actually be traced back to P. G. Wodehouse, the submitter has expressed the strong belief that the piece stands an excellent chance of turning out, at the least, …Read more
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10Inequality, Poverty, Two Invariance Conditions, and a Product RuleÉthique Et Économique 13 (2). 2016.Full Text / Article complet.
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4To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods created to handle genome-scale data.We recovered a highly resolved tree that confirms previously controversial sister or close relationships.We identified the first divergence in Neoaves, two groups we named Passerea and Columbea, representing independent lineages of diverse and convergently evolved land and water bird spec…Read more
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10Rights, Deprivation, and Disparity: Essays in Concepts and MeasurementOxford University Press India. 2006.Welfare economics, social choice theory, distributional analysis, and pverty assessments are all important ingredients of problems in concepts and measurement. This book is a collection of papers, written over the last twenty years or so, which deal with issues of social choice, rights, poverty, and inequality. These are issues which form part of most people's everyday concerns. The book will appeal to an audience which goes well beyond the constituency of academic specialists.
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A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income PovertyIn Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume Ii: Society, Institutions, and Development, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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45Counting the poor: An elementary difficulty in the measurement of provertyEconomics and Philosophy 18 (2): 277-285. 2002.This note suggests that the exercise of measuring poverty in a society is greatly aided by clarity on precisely what one means by “the extent of poverty”. The latter concept may refer to the extent of poverty normalized for population size, or to the extent of poverty not so normalized. Absence of clarity on this distinction – which is both simple and non-trivial – could lead to rather straightforward problems of coherence and consistency in the measurement of poverty.
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76An Elementary Interpretation of the Gini Inequality IndexTheory and Decision 52 (4): 375-379. 2002.This note presents a very simple way of interpreting the Gini coefficient of inequality, in `equivalent' welfare terms, as the proportion of a cake of given size going to the poorer of two individuals in a two-person cake-sharing problem
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30This note demonstrates that the property of Replication Invariance, generally considered to be an innocuous requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable- population contexts, is incompatible with other plausible variable-population axioms in the presence of specific canonical fixed-population axioms
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46Variable Population Poverty ComparisonsJournal of Development Economics 98 (2): 238-241. 2012.This paper demonstrates that the property of Replication Invariance, generally considered to be an innocuous requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other plausible variable- and fixed-population axioms. This fact raises questions about what constitutes an appropriate headcount assessment of poverty, in terms of whether one should focus on the proportion, or the absolute numbers, of the population in poverty. Thi…Read more
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60Can we possibly subscribe to both liberty and equality at one and the same time?Think 11 (30): 103-110. 2012.