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S. Subramanian is former Professor of Economics from the Madras Institute of Development Studies, India, and a former Indian Council of Social Science Research National Fellow. He has research interests in the fields of poverty, inequality, demography, welfare economics, social choice theory, and development economics. He is an elected Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association and was a member of the advisory board of the World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty (2015–16). He is the author of, among other books, Rights, Deprivation, and Disparity (2006), The Poverty Line (2012), and Inequality and Poverty: A Short Critical Introduction (2019). He has published articles in a number of scholarly journals including the Journal of Development Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Sciences, Theory and Decision, and Economic and Political Weekly.

• Introduction I. On Economics And Economic Themes, With Some Digressions 1. In Memoriam: K. J. Arrow And A. B. Atkinson 2. Tom Paine, Rights Of Man, And The Foundations Of The Welfare State 3. Three Themes in Economics: the Market, Game Theory, and Famine 4. An Economist’s Descent Into Crime II On Some Tendencies In The Dismal Science 5. Economics: The View From Above 6. Hyman Kaplan And The G*L*O*B*A*L P*O*V*E*R*T*Y L*I*N*E 7. A Leacockian View Of Economics Today III On Institutions, Culture, And Society 8. Learning Economics And The Law Anew 9. The Adventures Of ‘Chalak’ Om, As Chronicled By Dr Vatsan