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Honoring Keith Griffin's more than 40 years of fundamental
contributions to the discipline of economics, the papers in this
volume reflect his deep commitment to advancing the well-being of
the world's poor majority and his unflinching willingness to
question conventional wisdom as to how this should be done. Four
overarching themes recur in Keith Griffin's work and this book: the
need to both eradicate poverty and redress inequalities in the
distribution of wealth within and among nations; the impact of
growth on inequality, and conversely inequality's impact on growth;
the political economy of policy-making; and the need for openness
to heterogeneity in both analytic tools and in policy
recommendations. The volume begins with an introduction by the
editors followed by a paper by Keith Griffin. In succeeding
chapters the contributors explore strategies for reducing poverty
and inequality, and provide perspectives on issues such as human
development, the rural/urban divide in China, and biodiversity and
sustainability. Students, researchers, policymakers and NGO
analysts exploring issues in development economics, development
studies, alternative economic systems, globalization, environmental
sustainability, inequality and well-being will find this book of
great interest.
Honoring Keith Griffin's more than 40 years of fundamental
contributions to the discipline of economics, the papers in this
volume reflect his deep commitment to advancing the well-being of
the world's poor majority and his unflinching willingness to
question conventional wisdom as to how this should be done. Four
overarching themes recur in Keith Griffin's work and this book: the
need to both eradicate poverty and redress inequalities in the
distribution of wealth within and among nations; the impact of
growth on inequality, and conversely inequality's impact on growth;
the political economy of policy-making; and the need for openness
to heterogeneity in both analytic tools and in policy
recommendations. The volume begins with an introduction by the
editors followed by a paper by Keith Griffin. In succeeding
chapters the contributors explore strategies for reducing poverty
and inequality, and provide perspectives on issues such as human
development, the rural/urban divide in China, and biodiversity and
sustainability. Students, researchers, policymakers and NGO
analysts exploring issues in development economics, development
studies, alternative economic systems, globalization, environmental
sustainability, inequality and well-being will find this book of
great interest.
From May 20 to May 24, 1986 a conference on distributive justice
and in equality was held at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
(Wis senschaftskolleg zu Berlin). More than thirty scholars
participated in this conference. The topics of the presentations
ranged from ethics, welfare economics and social choice theory to
characterizations of inequality meas ures and redistributive
taxation schemes. This book contains a selection of the papers
given at the conference. This collection of articles also appeared
as issues 2 and 3 of volume 5 of Social Choice and Welfare. In the
first paper P. Suppes argues for a pluralistic concept of equity.
For too long the emphasis has been on income distribution but there
are other characteristics which are important when one talks about
equity. Suppes suggests that it would be desirable to have Lorenz
curves for a variety of fea tures of societies, such as education,
health and housing. P. Dasgupta studies the quality of lives in
terms of an index of living stand ards. One has to distinguish
between "same number choices" (the number of lives is given) and
"different numbers choices" (problem of optimum popUlation). The
author argues that in the latter case the anonymity (or sym metry)
axiom cannot be readily defended. Once it is dropped, however, an
incoherence in the moral ordering of possible worlds arises. The
moral basis for different numbers choices becomes
generation-dependent, an overall moral ordering of possible worlds
no longer exists."
This volume brings together papers, which were ?rst presented at
the International Conference on Rational Choice, Individual Rights
and Non-Welfaristic Normative Economics, held in honour of Kotaro
Suzumura at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, on 11-13 March 2006,
and which have subsequently gone through the usual process of
review by referees. We have been helped by many individuals and
institutions in organizing the conference and putting this volume
together. We are grateful to the authors of this volume for
contributing their papers and to the referees who reviewed the
papers. We gratefully acknowledge the very generous fundings by the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Japan, through the grant for the 21st Century Center of Excellence
(COE) Program on the Normative Evaluation and Social Choice of
Contemporary Economic Systems, and by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, through the grant for International Scienti?c
Meetings in Japan, and the unstinted effort of the staff of the COE
Program at Hitotsubashi University, without which the conference in
2006 would not have been possible. We thank Dr. Martina Bihn, the
Editorial Director of Springer-Verlag for economics and business,
for her advice and help. Finally, we would like to mention that it
has been a great pleasure and privilege for us to edit this volume,
which is intended to be a tribute to Kotaro Suzumura's - mense
intellectual contributions, especially in the theory of rational
choice, welfare economics, and the theory of social choice.
Riverside Prasanta K.
This volume brings together papers, which were ?rst presented at
the International Conference on Rational Choice, Individual Rights
and Non-Welfaristic Normative Economics, held in honour of Kotaro
Suzumura at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, on 11-13 March 2006,
and which have subsequently gone through the usual process of
review by referees. We have been helped by many individuals and
institutions in organizing the conference and putting this volume
together. We are grateful to the authors of this volume for
contributing their papers and to the referees who reviewed the
papers. We gratefully acknowledge the very generous fundings by the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Japan, through the grant for the 21st Century Center of Excellence
(COE) Program on the Normative Evaluation and Social Choice of
Contemporary Economic Systems, and by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, through the grant for International Scienti?c
Meetings in Japan, and the unstinted effort of the staff of the COE
Program at Hitotsubashi University, without which the conference in
2006 would not have been possible. We thank Dr. Martina Bihn, the
Editorial Director of Springer-Verlag for economics and business,
for her advice and help. Finally, we would like to mention that it
has been a great pleasure and privilege for us to edit this volume,
which is intended to be a tribute to Kotaro Suzumura's - mense
intellectual contributions, especially in the theory of rational
choice, welfare economics, and the theory of social choice.
Riverside Prasanta K.
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