Title:	Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare
Authors:	Ranjan Ray Satish Kumar Jain, Karl Ove Moene Anjan Mukherji
Keywords:	Welfare
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book, which is a collection of papers, written by Ranjan Ray over the years, on the above topics, mainly in the context of the Indian economy, with occasional forays to other nations, such as China, Vietnam, Canada and Australia, is an erudite and authoritative work. The value of the book lies in the wonderful, encapsulated account it gives of all the specialized work that goes on behind the production of these headline numbers concerning inequality, poverty and household welfare, in India and other economies, that all of us take an interest in but only a few fully understand. The book also goes into related areas such as commodity taxation and tax reform, which, with India’s recent adoption of the Goods and Services Tax, has become a topic of popular interest. Reading these essays not only helps one understand the full significance of some of these concepts and indicators but also makes one aware of their strengths and weaknesses. As such, Household Behaviour, Prices and Welfare should be of interest to students and teachers of economics, to economic journalists and media persons who report and talk about these numbers, and also, alas, to the social media trolls, wanting to give a spin that serves the interests of his or her political master. My own interest in these topics was, initially, that of the curious bystander. This changed once I went to the world of policymaking, first in the Indian government in New Delhi in 2009 and then at the World Bank in Washington in 2012.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55276
ISBN:	978-981-13-1930-3
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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