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Social Values and Social Indicators

Essays in Normative Economics and Measurement

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Authors:
  1. S. Subramanian

    1. Independent Scholar, Chennai, India

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  • Discusses through 14 chapters, varied topics such as Friedman’s methodology, Paretian liberalism, Arrow Paradox, Derek Parfit’s arguments, and social indicators, principally indicators of poverty and inequality
  • Addresses key issues in economic analysis with a philosophical slant
  • Deals with concerns that are informed by normative considerations which deserve to be addressed and debated

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • S. Subramanian
    Pages 1-6

  4. Inequality and Poverty Measurement: Questioning Some Axiomatic Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 81-98

    3. Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 99-109

    4. Poverty Measurement in the Presence of a ‘Group-Affiliation’ Externality

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 111-123

    5. Revisiting the Normalization Axiom in Poverty Measurement

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 125-138

    6. The Focus Axiom and Poverty: On the Coexistence of Precise Language and Ambiguous Meaning in Economic Measurement

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 139-153

    7. Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth: An Expository Essay

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 155-177

    8. Revisiting an Old Theme in the Measurement of Inequality and Poverty

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 179-188

    9. Inequality Measurement with Subgroup Decomposability and Level-Sensitivity

      • S. Subramanian
      Pages 189-201
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About this book

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 methodological issues in economic enquiry, to the normatively constrained aggregation of personal preferences into collective choice, and to problems of logical coherence and ethical appeal in the axiom systems underlying the measurement of economic and social phenomena such as poverty, inequality and literacy. While many of the essays are more or less technical in nature, they are all explicitly motivated by considerations that go beyond the formalisms of presentation to an involvement with the role of moral reasoning in economic analysis. In particular, the essays emphasize the importance of ‘ought propositions’ in a science which is all too often regarded as being wholly and exclusively ‘positive’ in its orientation. The book should be of particular interest to researchers, students, and public policy makers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, Chennai, India

    S. Subramanian

About the author

​S. Subramanian has served as a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. An economist with research interests in poverty, inequality, demography, welfare economics, collective choice theory and development economics, he has published widely in professional journals, and is the author of (among other books) The Poverty Line (2012), and more recently the very successful SpringerBrief Inequality and Poverty: A Short Critical Introduction (2019). He is an elected Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, and was a member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Values and Social Indicators

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Normative Economics and Measurement

  • Authors: S. Subramanian

  • Series Title: Themes in Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0428-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0427-0Published: 25 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0430-0Published: 26 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0428-7Published: 24 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2730-5597

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-5600

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 194

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Public Economics, Economic Growth, Public Policy, Education, general, Ethics

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