Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Economics of Amartya Sen: An Overview: 1. Economics of Amartya Sen/R.S. Mishra. 2. Economics and ethics of Amartya Sen/S.S. Banhati. 3. Nobel laureate: Amartya Sen/S.C. Sharma. 4. The economics of Amartya Kumar Sen-a note/J.N. Tewary. 5. Radical Sen/Amalesh Banerjee. 6. A.K. Sen--The Harbinger of a revolution in economic theory and planning objectives/C.B. Padmanabham. 7. Amartya Sen--The great economist: a note/Debansu Roy. 8. Amartya Sen--The nobel economist: a note/Pragati Mohanty. 9. A note on economic ideas of Amartya Sen/Kalipada Basu. 10. Sensibility in senology: a note/Kumar B. Das. II. Economics and Philosophy of Amartya Sen: 11. Sen's economic philosophy in tune with Indian economic thought/R.P. Sarma. 12. Magnificent man in quest of ethics/Ratan Lal Basu. 13. Amartya Kumar Sen: An economist, a philosopher/Tapati Sanyal. III. Amartya Sen and Welfare Economics: 14. Amartya Sen and welfare economics--some reflections/K.M. Naidu. 15. Sen's welfare economics/Anindya Bhukta. IV. Amartya Sen and Development: 16. Amartya Sen, development economics and freedom/Biswajit Chatterjee. 17. The entitlement approach: its conceptual contours and contextual issues/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 18. Amartya Sen: On human development and famine/Ram Naresh Thakur. 19. Sen's model of economic development--an inter-state analysis. V. Poverty, Inequality and Amartya Sen: 20. Amartya Sen on poverty, inequality and famine/Asim K. Karmakar. 21. Amartya Sen on the measurement of poverty/Debesh Bhowmick. 22. Sen's capability approach/S.L. Pedgaonkar. 23. Poverty estimation in India and Amartya Sen's P. Index/Amarendra. 24. Amartya's world of poverty and public action: a lesson to Bihar/Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma. 25. Inequality, discrimination and Amartya Sen/Raj Kumar Sen. Index.

"Economics of Amartya Sen is an edited volume arising out of the contributed papers on this topic organised by the Indian Economic Association to honour its former President, Prof. Amartya Sen on the unique occasion of his winning the Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1998. The present volume consists of 25 articles and notes distributed over five sub-themes, viz. (i) Economics of Amartya Sen: An overview, (ii) Economics and Philosophy of Amartya Sen, (iii) Amartya Sen and Welfare Economics, (iv) Amartya Sen and Development, and (v) Poverty, inequality and Amartya Sen. The articles are authored by R.S. Mishra, S.S. Banhati, S.C. Sharma, J.N. Tewary, Amalesh Banerjee, C.B. Padmanabhan, Debansu Roy, Pragati Mohanty, Kalipada Basu, Kumar B. Das, R.P. Sarma, Ratan Lal Basu, Tapati Sanyal, K.M. Naidu, Anindya Bhukta, Biswajit Chatterjee, P. Jegadish Gandhi, Ram Naresh Thakur, Anju Kohli, Sadhna Kothari, Neelima Shrivastava, Asim K. Karmakar, Debesh Bhowmick, S.L. Pedgaonkar, Amarendra, Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma, Raj Kumar Sen." (jacket)