Product Description: Theory of Social Choice and Welfare is an ideal introduction to the area for graduate students of economics, politics, and philosophy, and researchers. Covering all of the essential topics, as well as detailed discussions of the Arrow-type aggregation problem as well as strategic manipulation and implementation (two of the main areas in the theory of social choice), it also provides a comprehensive discussion of the non-welfaristic issues of rights, freedom, and opportunity, for which no systematic textbook treatment is elsewhere available...read more

Product Description: This volume highlights the use of structural methods by applying them to a large number of widely different contexts. The essays draw on data from several countries such as Colombia, India, and the U.S. and develop empirical models that are applied to a wide range of policy issues...read more

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Product Description: This is the first of a series of books devoted to economic analysis relating to problems of the Indian economy. The introduction surveys the landmark contributions in the field and the essays focus on some of the issues relating to the fundamental theorems and their implications for public policy...read more

Product Description: This work discusses the application of theoretical methods to economic development. The authors break their analysis into distinct sections--macroeconomics, industrial organization, planning and public policy, and intertemporal economics...read more

Product Description: Each of the fifteen contributions to this volume explores a particular area of economic theory, presenting fresh insights and analyses. The first three chapters, on macroeconomics and policy, study the effects of wage-cuts, administered prices, deficit financing and other monetary measures taken by the government...read more