Titlebook: Inequality and Poverty; A Short Critical Int S. Subramanian Book 2019 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore P

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S. Subramaniantion with the also-hot technology called assertion-based des.Constraint-Based Verification covers an emerging field in functional verification of electronic designs, referred to as the "constraint-based verification."  The topics are developed in the context of a wide range of dynamic and static ver

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Introduction, 2016 and 2018, first for the Chandigarh-based . newspaper and then for the economics/finance daily .. I am very grateful to Harish Khare, Former Editor of ., for inviting me to write a regular bimonthly column on economics-related issues for his newspaper and to Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Former Editor

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The Intrinsic Bane of Inequality,s’ work in his ., and some of the antecedent influences upon the book, such as the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on inequality and the social contract. In the process, Rawls’s ‘maximin principle’ is also explained.

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Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism,tilitarianism. The present chapter explains how utilitarianism has come to be associated with promoting the quest for equality. Employing the work of Amartya Sen, it also argues that the association is a misplaced one, which perhaps applies only to ‘homogeneous’ populations and so leaves the importa

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More on Welfare Economics and Distributive Justice,ributional questions. Drawing on the seminal work of Amartya Sen, the chapter explains how the extremely restricted informational basis of Welfare Economics—founded, as it is, on a particularly limited set of data purely on .—has contributed to the sparse engagement of Welfare Economics with distrib

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On the Conflict Between Equity and Efficiency, sense of how the two principles could conflict. It also points to the logical and ethical difficulties that arise from an attempt to circumvent the conflict by affording priority to one of the two principles.

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,Equality, Efficiency, and ‘Levelling Down’, the virtues of a ‘level’ playing field, even if the ‘levelling’ is to be done by simply dragging down those who are better off to the level of those who are worse off. The appeal of the ‘levelling down’ argument against egalitarianism is located in a particular reading of the unexceptionableness of