Jibanjatra O Arthaniti by Amartya Sen [Hardcover]

"Amartya Sen has written on various branches of economics. From his vast field of knowledge, this book focuses on aspects related to the well-being and suffering of the poor people in poor countries. It addresses very real and vivid issues such as poverty, famine, malnutrition, and sex bias, along with the detailed theoretical distinctions among different meanings of well-being. The main objective of these essays is the economic evaluation of living standards. In the author's words, 'The economic evaluation of living standards is a major duty of economics.'

This book contains ten essays—four of them are India-centric, while six are more general and can be considered universal. These essays are not selected as samples of his writing on various economic subjects but are woven together through the economic evaluation of living standards."