January 013 Curriculum Vitae Amartya Sen

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“On the Development of Basic Economic Indicators to Supplement GNP Measures,” 

United Nations Economic Bulletin for Asia and the Far East, 24 (1973). 

 

 

 

“Notes on the Measurement of Inequality,” Journal of Economic Theory, 6 (April 1973).  Jointly 

with P. Dasgupta and D.Starrett. 

 

 

“Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment: Some Conceptional Issues in Measurement,” 

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 36 (June and December 1974). 

 

 

 

“Real National Income,” Review of Economic Studies, 43 (February 1976). 

 

 

 

“Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement,” Econometrica, 44 (March 1976). 

 

 

 

“Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some Difficulties,” in W. Krelle and A.F. Shorrocks, 

eds., Personal Income Distribution (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1978). 

 

 

 

“Issues in the Measurement of Poverty,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 8l (1979). 

 

 

 

“The Welfare Basis of Real Income Comparisons,” Journal of Economic Literature 17 (March 

1979). 

 

 

“Levels of Poverty: Policy and Change,” World Bank Staff Working Paper (Washington, 

DC: The World Bank, 1980). 

 

 

 

“The Welfare Basis of Real Income Comparisons: A Reply,” Journal of Economic Literature, 18 

(December 1980). 

 

 

 

“Poor, Relatively Speaking,” Oxford Economic Papers, 35 (August 1983). 

 

 

 

“The Living Standard,” Oxford Economic Papers, 36 (August 1984); augmented version 

published in David Crocker and Toby Linden, eds., Ethics of Consumption (New York: 

Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). 

 

 

 

“A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty: A Reply to Professor Peter 

Townsend,” Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (November 1985). 

 

 

 

“The Standard of Living,” in S. McMurrin, ed., Tanner Lectures on Human Values VII  

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 

 

 

 

“The Nature of Inequality,” in K.J. Arrow, ed., Issues in Contemporary Economics: Markets and 

Welfare (London: Macmillan, 1991). 

 

 

 

“Life Expectancy and Inequality: Some Conceptual Issues,” in P. Bardhan et al., eds., 

Development and Change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). 

 

 

“Human Development Index:  Methodology and Measurement,” Human Development 

Report Office Occasional Paper 12 (New York, 1994).  Jointly with Sudhir Anand.   

Reprinted in S. Fukuda-Parr and A. K. Shiva Kumar, eds., Readings in Human 

Development (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003). 

 

 

 

“The Concept of Wealth,” in Ramon H. Myers, ed., The Wealth of Nations in the Twentieth 

Century (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1996). 

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“From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality,” Southern Economic Journal, 64 (1997). 

 

 

 

“Should Inequality and Poverty Measures be Decomposable?” A Report on the Second 

Kumar Chakravarti Memorial Lecture, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 48 (March-

June 1998). 

 

 

“Foreword,” in Jacques Silber, ed., Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement (Boston: 

Dordrecht and London: Kluwer, 1999). 

 

 

“Social Justice and the Distribution of Income,” in A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, 

eds., Handbook of Income Distribution, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., 2000). 

 

 

“Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty,” in David Grusky and Ravi Kanbur, eds., 

 

 

Poverty and Inequality (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2006). 

 

 

 

 

(IV)  AXIOMATIC CHOICE THEORY 

 

 

 

“Quasi-transitivity, Rational Choice and Collective Decisions,” Review of Economic Studies, 36 

(July 1969). 

 

 

 

“Choice Functions and Revealed Preference,” Review of Economic Studies, 38 (July 1971). 

 

 

 

“A Note on Representing Partial Orderings,” Review of Economic Studies, 43 (October 1976).  

Jointly with M. Majumdar. 

 

 

 

“Rationality and Uncertainty,” Theory and Decision 18 (1985); also in L. Daboni, A. 

                  Montesano, and M. Lines, eds., Recent Developments in the Foundations of Utility and Risk 

Theory (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986). 

 

 

 

“Information and Invariance in Normative Choice,” in W. P. Heller, R. Starr, and D. A. 

Starrett, eds., Social Choice and Public Decision Making: Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, 

vol. I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 

 

 

 

“Rational Behaviour,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (London: Macmillan, 1987). 

 

 

 

“Internal Consistency of Choice,” Econometrica, 61 (1993). 

 

 

 

“Non-Binary Choice and Preference: A Tribute to Stig Kanger,” in D. Prawitz  et al., Logic, 

Methodology and Philosophy of Science IX (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1994). 

 

 

 

“Maximization and the Act of Choice,” Econometrica, 65 (1997). 

 

 

 

 

(V) 

RATIONALITY AND ECONOMIC

 

BEHAVIOUR 

 

 

 

“Behaviour and the Concept of Preference,” Economica, 45 (August 1973). Reprinted in Jon 

Elster, ed., Rational Choice (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986). 

 

 

 

“Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory,” 

Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (Summer 1977); reprinted in H. Harris, ed., Scientific Models 

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