Khandakar Qudrat‐I Elahi, Md. Lutfor Rahman
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This paper insinuates the conceptual foundation of Sen's entitlement approach by pinpointing its major weaknesses. First, Sen's critique of FAD is inadequate because speculative, not actual, supply and demand forces determine short-run commodity prices. Second, Sen's idea of 'exchange entitlement' i...
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International Relations/Trade
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This paper examines the academic soundness of the Pareto welfare criterion as a normative rule for evaluating alternative economic inequality scenarios and suggests that the criterion has several weaknesses, which weaken its usefulness. First, the Pareto principle is of limited use in the inequality...
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This paper critically reviews Professors Backhouse and Medema's article - 'On the definition of economics' - published in the Journal of Economic Perspective (2009), which offers a state-of-art survey of the century-old definitional debate. Unlike other similar articles, BM makes some novel (and eye...
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