Titlebook: Social Values and Social Indicators; Essays in Normative S. Subramanian Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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Revisiting the Normalization Axiom in Poverty Measurementto a variant of Sen’s index, together with a variant also of the Foster–Greer–Thorbecke poverty measures, is advanced and discussed. The derivation of the new normalization axiom benefits from Basu’s decomposition of the Sen axiom.

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Introduction,il of Social Science Research. As the title suggests, the book deals with certain normative aspects of economics, as reflected in the manner in which social choices and the axiomatic bases of economic measurement are restricted by moral values and the demands of logical consistency. This motivation

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‘Instrumentalism’ and Friedman’s Methodology: A Short Objection or otherwise of the assumptions underlying a theory. In this view, what is important for an economist engaged in formulating policy is to have a theory which is capable of generating accurate predictions. This note asserts, with the help of a very simple example, that theories based on unrealistic

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Liberty, Equality, and Impossibility: Some General Results in the Space of ‘Soft’ Preferenceslly formulated vague preferences. With sufficiently weakened versions of the liberty and equity principles, one can secure an existence result in a ‘relation-functional’ setting. However, difficulties tend to re-appear in a ‘choice-functional’ setting, when one subscribes to the notion that while pr

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The Arrow Paradox with Fuzzy Preferencesy Theorem is then examined within the resulting framework of vague individual and social preferences. The outcome of this exercise is compared with some earlier results available in the literature on the Arrow paradox with fuzzy preferences.

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Equality, Priority, and Distributional Judgementsn providing a brief critique of Parfit’s arguments, the essay draws on the author’s own earlier work and that of Thomas Christiano and Will Braynen, John Broome, and Marc Fleurbaey. It considers issues relating to the ‘Levelling Down Objection’, the ‘Divided World example’, and the distinction betwe

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Two Logical and Normative Issues Relating to Measurement in the Social Sciencest in his or her engagement with the project of measurement. It deals, in particular, with two often overlooked issues with which quantification in the social sciences should be concerned: (1) social indicators in relation to the contrast between outcomes and processes; and (2) measurement which tend

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