01501nam a22001697a 4500010001500000020002600015035001300041037001300054082000800067100002100075245014400096260003900240270007700279300002600356505092000382650002901302  aENG-112095  a9788132113737c850.00  aEN-95627  bDBAD/PUB  a330  a Subramanian, S.  aEssays in economics and other cheerful themes :cby S. Subramanianba dismal scientist’s occasional reflections of the world around him /  aNew DelhibSage Publicationsc2014  aBI/I-1 Mohan Coperative Industrial Area, Mathura RoadbNew Delhie110044  axxiii,203p.c22cm(Hb)  aWell-being and the world today -- Global poverty, inequality, and aid flows : a rough guide to some simple justice -- The status of the child in India -- Human development and human rights -- Inclusive development and the quintile income statistic -- Reprisal without rectitude -- Moral catastrophes and immoral reasoning -- Looking back and ahead -- Examining the creamy layer principle -- On headcount poverty comparisons -- Thinking through justice -- Are egalitarians really vulnerable to the levelling-down objection and the divided -- Can we possibly subscribe to both liberty and equality at one and the same time? -- A curmudgeon’s complaints -- Jai ho, jeeves! an advanced sociological analysis of slumdog millionaire -- Language and representation or, more modestly, mathematical economics and poverty -- Writing economics in exactly 300 words: two samples in the tradition of J.B. Morton (beachcomber).  aEconomicsvPopular works