ON ETHICS AND ECONOMICS (OIP)

This book is really good for those who finds everything good in capitalism and everything bad in socialism. Author convinces its readers in it that the economist are far less concerned with role of ethics in economics ,they are only concerned with growth numbers and production. The need for ethics in today's era is utmost necessity to solve the increasing trend of problems in world like poverty, education, hunger ,violence etc.the book presents this view very accurately. Major flaw in thus book is that it thinks that readers are well versed in economics. Will be difficult to understand for those who are not well versed with economics as subject.SPECIFICATIONS:1 Book : Ethics & Economics2 Author : Amartya sen3 Lang. : English4 Public. : Oxford India5 Mkt rate: 245 rs.

The book is little difficult to understand since it is mainly based on some economic concepts which I am not much familiar with. Will read it second time to fully understand the book. However, the book is well written and very good content wise. Overall a 5 star rating.

This book tells us what we should be..and where we have gone wrong...why...there is so much pain all around us...and what path we should try take to avert a global ethical catastrophe.

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A must read for all economists (and common people as well).

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This slim volume is an edited version of the Royer Lectures that Sen delivered at the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. It is a rather diffident and undifferentiated critique of the reduction of moral reasoning in economics to the Pareto principle, the standard assumption of rationality, and the equation of rationality with self-interest. Sen stresses that welfare is not simply a function of getting what you want, but also of having the power to make your own choices, in addition to having the material products of your choice. This book is superseded, I suggest, by his Development as Freedom (Anchor, 2000).

Sen is not your typical, market-dazzled equation-loving economist: he brings both common sense and an appreciation for morality and human frailty to his work in the field. Do I cast a cold eye on aficionados of homo economicus? Yes, and I have done a great deal of reading in the field of feminist economics, some of whose practitioners incorporate a similar concern for real people facing real economic and ethical dilemmas. Sen is both accomplished and insightful. Buy this book.

This is a great short book for those pesky economics students that can't just take the "rationality" assumption and move on to the math and statistics.Its a very quick read, but offers a nearly infinite number of references for those that need even more.