"Apostles of Development offers an analytical history of international development through the lives and work of six of its most distinguished practitioners. These so-called "Apostles" were all born in the 1930s as subjects of Britain's South Asian empire; after education there they all studied...

Professor Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests, and the inspiration he has provided for others. Contributors include: Kenneth Arrow, A. B. Atkinson and Pranab Bardhan.

How should we address today’s big problems, and what we can take from icons of economics past? How would John Maynard Keynes have resolved today's debt problem, or how would Adam Smith have assessed the European carbon emission trading market? This book applies the ideas of ten renowned...

1: Karl Marx on Capitalism -- 2: Hyman Minsky on Financial Crises -- 3: John Maynard Keynes on Debt and Demand -- 4: Frank Knight on Risk and Uncertainty -- 5: Barbara Bergmann on Gender Biases.-6: Thorstein veblen on Inequality -- 7: Amartya Sen on Financial Capabilities -- 8: Gunnar Myrdal on...