Material Progress Ethics and Human Development

<p>This book is a collection of six articles on economic topics of current interest presented in six chapters.</p><p>The first chapter 'Eco Ethical Views of Tagore and Amartya Sen' is a comparative study of the views on Ethics and Ecology of Rabindranath Tagore and Amartya Sen the two Bengali Nobel laureates from India.</p><p>The second chapter 'Poverty and Ethics' deals with the Ethical reasons for perpetuation of poverty in spite of material progress in course of human history.</p><p>The third chapter 'Material Progress and Ethics: a Historical Perspective' visualizes the propelling force of human society as the conflict between unbridled self-interest and social ethics contesting the Marxian theory of 'class struggle'.</p><p>The fourth chapter 'Human Development According to Adam Smith and Karl Marx' is a comparative study of the concepts of Human Development embedded in the writings of                  Adam Smith the father of modern economics and Karl Marx.</p><p>The fifth chapter 'Human Development in Ancient Indian Texts' takes up the issue of human development embodied in ancient Indian texts.</p><p>The sixth chapter 'Theory of Kingship in Ancient India' discusses the process of ensuring a perfect ruler as prescribed in the ancient Indian texts.</p>