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How should economic and social theory accommodate empirical facts about physical destitution, and how should governments respond to famines and hunger? This interdisciplinary book focuses on these and other questions about physical being. Dasguptas aim here is to offer a description of destitution as it occurs among rural populations of the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; to give an account of the forces at work which perpetuate destitution, and to offer prescriptions for both the public and private spheres of life.A central concern of the author has been to reconcile theoretical considerations with the empirical evidence that has been obtained in the several disciplines this work encompasses, including anthropology, demography, ecology, geography, and philosophy. The entire discussion is designed to provide a philosophy for human well-being that can guide public policy in poor countries. Therefore, the role of the State, of communities, of households, and of individuals is studied in considerable detail.The author reveals an empirical link between greater political and civil liberties and improvements in life expectancy at birth, national income per capita, and infant survival rates. He identifies patterns of asset redistribution that promote economic growth by raising labor productivity, and argues that democratic participation in the design of public policies is not only intrinsically valuable, but has strong instrumental virtues: it allows privately held information to be put into effective use. Dasgupta presents evidence to show that significant reductions in military budgets would free the resources needed for the satisfaction of citizens basic economic needs, and he provides guidance for the motivation and necessary focus of governments. He also looks at the allocation of food, work, health care, education, and income across genders, age groups, and orders of birth. He explores the findings of nutritionists on the link between food needs and work capacity, and develops a language to allow the environment to be included in social policies and calculations. By covering an unprecedented range of material, An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution becomes required reading for all those concerned with the human situation and the plight of the destitute.

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Praise for An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
'Although he is himself a theoretical economist, his models start in political philosophy, and go beyond what most economists think of as economics into the real conditions of life in the South. An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution is in many ways as impressive as Hume, Smith and Marx themselves.... No one, however, has gone so far beyond the generalities and brought so much of the many bits of available information together. No one, certainly, has thought it through so hard.'
London Review of Books
'a rich, unusual and wide-ranging work... When one reads the whole book, one is forced to jettison incorrect impressions of simple-mindedness. Without doubt, this is mandatory reading for every social scientist anywhere in the world'
Indian Express
'An excellent survey of the literature.'
Social & Behavioural Sciences
'It is a characteristic work: philosophically sophisticated, empirically well-informed, ambitious and lively. I think that there can be few people as able as he is to write the book.'
James Griffin
'a valiant and valuable effort which is much needed... I am amazed at the thoroughness with which Dasgupta has mastered the nutrition literature'
John Waterlow
'Dasgupta has produced a tour de force, a book which is a model of good economics. He has addressed a set of questions which are of central importance, questions for which we really do care what the answers are. To answer these questions he has marshalled an array of evidence, empirical studies drawn from a wide range of sources. And he has brought some simple, but deep, theories and ideas to bear on these questions. The book will be a must for every development economist, but its reach should go well beyond that: every economist should be concerned with the questions it raises, and as a model of how good economics should be done, it should be required reading for every graduate student.'
Joseph Stiglitz
'Dasgupta's book on resource allocation in poor countries covers a remarkably wide range of material, including work by anthropologists, nutritionists, political scientists, and others. At the same time as making this data available to economists interested in economic development, he raises important issues that are relevant to anthropologists, especially those dealing with the household, with poverty, and with gender differences. This is a cross disciplinary study of great importance to the various disciplines it engages.'
Jack Goody
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An inquiry into well-being and destitution / Partha Dasgupta.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. PovertyDeveloping countries. 2. Quality of lifeDeveloping countries.
3. Resource allocation. 4. Income distributionDeveloping countries.
5. HouseholdsDeveloping countries. 6. MalnutritionDeveloping countries.
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HC59.72.P6D37 1993 330.9172'4dc20 9243313
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To the memory of my father,
Amiya Dasgupta
This book was meant for my father. He knew it, and he read the first draft of the early chapters in the summer of 1989 when my mother and he were visiting my family in Cambridge. In February 1990 he became ill, and for the first time I had the sense that one's parents can't be expected to be there always. His recovery must have been slow, for he responded to subsequent drafts only intermittently, and his letters became infrequent. I was teaching at Stanford then, and sometime in the spring of 1990 it came to me that I had all along been writing this book
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