Mukesh Eswaran
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 752740 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mukesh Eswaran |
| PRENOMES | Mukesh |
| SOBRENOME | Eswaran |
| ASSINATURA | ESWARAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6262-2882 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 288 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Nature of Labor’s Vulnerability to Exploitation
I identify a hitherto unrecognized contribution of labor to production stemming from an innate sense of psychological ownership of the fruits of one’s labor. This is rooted in the consciousness accompanying all human activities and is distinct from legal ownership. Consciousness is inalienable; it cannot be contracted on. Labor’s psychological ownership generates quasi-rents, which can be appropriated by capitalist firms with market power. Monops…
The Wrongs of Property Rights
Je propose un modèle économique théorique dans lequel la privatisation d’une réserve autochtone en la divisant en parcelles individuelles en fief simple peut abaisser le niveau de bien-être des groupes autochtones. En m’appuyant sur les effets démontrés de l’érosion de la culture autochtone et des droits de propriété communaux, je propose une explication partielle de la raison pour laquelle le bien-être subjectif auto-évalué des peuples autochton…
On Reducing the Sexual Assault of Women
In Canada, it is estimated that only about 5 percent of sexual assaults are reported to police and fewer than 1 percent of assaults result in convictions. The reasons for this are discussed in this commentary using results from a formal model in economic theory. In the model, if police overestimate the probability that women’s reports of assault are false, as the evidence clearly documents, they under-investigate. This in turn reduces the reporti…
Can Competition and Patent Policies Avert the Antibiotic Crisis
Countries worldwide face an antibiotics health crisis. Resistant bacteria are rendering the current stock of antibiotics ineffective, and the pipeline of back-up drugs is running dry. Canada contributes more than its share to this global problem, with per-capita doses of antibiotics exceeding those of many of its peer countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In a simple dynamic framework, we identify an efficient p…
A gender-based theory of the origin of the caste system of India
Status, Caste, and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India
We argue that women may be disinclined to participate in market work in the rural areas of India because of family status concerns in a culture that stigmatizes market work by married women. We set out a theoretical framework that offers predictions regarding the effects of caste-based status concerns on the time allocation of women. We then use the all-India National Sample Survey data for the year 2004–5 and the Time Use Survey for six states o…
Domestic violence and women's autonomy in developing countries
This paper sets out a simple non‐cooperative model of resource allocation within the household in developing countries that incorporates domestic violence as a vehicle for enhancing bargaining power. We demonstrate that the extent of domestic violence faced by women is not necessarily declining in their reservation utilities, or necessarily increasing in their spouses’. Using the National Family Health Survey data of India for 1998–99, we isolate…
Well‐being and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good
The happiness literature has established that, in the developed countries, increasing affluence has not increased well-being in recent decades. We seek an explanation for this in terms of conspicuous consumption, a phenomenon originally identified by Veblen. We develop some simple general equilibrium models that incorporate a Veblen good, among others. In all of our models, as productivity increases, the Veblen good eventually dominates the econo…
Differential Grading Standards and Student Incentives
We present data on grades from three Canadian universities. These data suggest that grading standards differ significantly across disciplines within universities. To the extent that grading standards are not uniform across disciplines, the grade point averages (GPAs) of students with different course mixes cannot be meaningfully compared, and therefore their GPAs cannot legitimately be used to assess their relative achievement. Yet GPAs are used …
What determines female autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh
Quality-enhancing trade liberalization
The empowerment of women, fertility, and child mortality
The role of the service sector in the process of industrialization
Why Poverty Persists in India
Regulating Reproduction in India's Population
Export led development Primary vs. industrial exports
A theory of real wage growth in LDCs
Credit and Agrarian Class Structure
In this chapter, the authors trace the key role of unequal access to both production and consumption credits in shaping the agrarian class structure.
Credit as insurance in agrarian economies
Why are Capitalists the Bosses
Journal Article Why are Capitalists the Bosses? Get access Mukesh Eswaran, Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ashok Kotwal Ashok Kotwal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 394, 1 March 1989, Pages 162–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234211 Published: 01 March 1…
Access to Capital and Agrarian Production Organisation
Journal Article Access to Capital and Agrarian Production Organisation Get access Mukesh Eswaran, Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ashok Kotwal Ashok Kotwal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 382, 1 June 1986, Pages 482–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233128…
Appropriability and the Extraction of a Common Property Resource
On the Nonexistence of Market Equilibria in Exhaustible Resource Markets with Decreasing Costs
This paper examines the existence of competitive equilibria in markets for exhaustible resources where there are initial economies of scale in either the extraction of the resource or the utilization of the resource as an input in production. In such instances, which are fairly common, we find that the classic Hotelling rule for competitive extraction does not apply, since competitive price equilibria generally do not exist. This is in marked con…
What determines female autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh
Access to Capital and Agrarian Production Organisation
Journal Article Access to Capital and Agrarian Production Organisation Get access Mukesh Eswaran, Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ashok Kotwal Ashok Kotwal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 382, 1 June 1986, Pages 482–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233128…
Status, Caste, and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India
We argue that women may be disinclined to participate in market work in the rural areas of India because of family status concerns in a culture that stigmatizes market work by married women. We set out a theoretical framework that offers predictions regarding the effects of caste-based status concerns on the time allocation of women. We then use the all-India National Sample Survey data for the year 2004–5 and the Time Use Survey for six states o…
A gender-based theory of the origin of the caste system of India
Credit as insurance in agrarian economies
The empowerment of women, fertility, and child mortality
Why are Capitalists the Bosses
Journal Article Why are Capitalists the Bosses? Get access Mukesh Eswaran, Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ashok Kotwal Ashok Kotwal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 394, 1 March 1989, Pages 162–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234211 Published: 01 March 1…
Well‐being and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good
The happiness literature has established that, in the developed countries, increasing affluence has not increased well-being in recent decades. We seek an explanation for this in terms of conspicuous consumption, a phenomenon originally identified by Veblen. We develop some simple general equilibrium models that incorporate a Veblen good, among others. In all of our models, as productivity increases, the Veblen good eventually dominates the econo…
The role of the service sector in the process of industrialization
A theory of real wage growth in LDCs
On the Nonexistence of Market Equilibria in Exhaustible Resource Markets with Decreasing Costs
This paper examines the existence of competitive equilibria in markets for exhaustible resources where there are initial economies of scale in either the extraction of the resource or the utilization of the resource as an input in production. In such instances, which are fairly common, we find that the classic Hotelling rule for competitive extraction does not apply, since competitive price equilibria generally do not exist. This is in marked con…
The Wrongs of Property Rights
Je propose un modèle économique théorique dans lequel la privatisation d’une réserve autochtone en la divisant en parcelles individuelles en fief simple peut abaisser le niveau de bien-être des groupes autochtones. En m’appuyant sur les effets démontrés de l’érosion de la culture autochtone et des droits de propriété communaux, je propose une explication partielle de la raison pour laquelle le bien-être subjectif auto-évalué des peuples autochton…
Differential Grading Standards and Student Incentives
We present data on grades from three Canadian universities. These data suggest that grading standards differ significantly across disciplines within universities. To the extent that grading standards are not uniform across disciplines, the grade point averages (GPAs) of students with different course mixes cannot be meaningfully compared, and therefore their GPAs cannot legitimately be used to assess their relative achievement. Yet GPAs are used …
Export led development Primary vs. industrial exports
On the Nonexistence of Market Equilibria in Exhaustible Resource Markets with Decreasing Costs
This paper examines the existence of competitive equilibria in markets for exhaustible resources where there are initial economies of scale in either the extraction of the resource or the utilization of the resource as an input in production. In such instances, which are fairly common, we find that the classic Hotelling rule for competitive extraction does not apply, since competitive price equilibria generally do not exist. This is in marked con…
Appropriability and the Extraction of a Common Property Resource
Access to Capital and Agrarian Production Organisation
Journal Article Access to Capital and Agrarian Production Organisation Get access Mukesh Eswaran, Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ashok Kotwal Ashok Kotwal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 382, 1 June 1986, Pages 482–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233128…
Credit as insurance in agrarian economies
Why are Capitalists the Bosses
Journal Article Why are Capitalists the Bosses? Get access Mukesh Eswaran, Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ashok Kotwal Ashok Kotwal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 394, 1 March 1989, Pages 162–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234211 Published: 01 March 1…
Credit and Agrarian Class Structure
In this chapter, the authors trace the key role of unequal access to both production and consumption credits in shaping the agrarian class structure.
Export led development Primary vs. industrial exports
A theory of real wage growth in LDCs
Why Poverty Persists in India
Regulating Reproduction in India's Population
The empowerment of women, fertility, and child mortality
The role of the service sector in the process of industrialization
Quality-enhancing trade liberalization
Differential Grading Standards and Student Incentives
We present data on grades from three Canadian universities. These data suggest that grading standards differ significantly across disciplines within universities. To the extent that grading standards are not uniform across disciplines, the grade point averages (GPAs) of students with different course mixes cannot be meaningfully compared, and therefore their GPAs cannot legitimately be used to assess their relative achievement. Yet GPAs are used …
What determines female autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh
Well‐being and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good
The happiness literature has established that, in the developed countries, increasing affluence has not increased well-being in recent decades. We seek an explanation for this in terms of conspicuous consumption, a phenomenon originally identified by Veblen. We develop some simple general equilibrium models that incorporate a Veblen good, among others. In all of our models, as productivity increases, the Veblen good eventually dominates the econo…
Domestic violence and women's autonomy in developing countries
This paper sets out a simple non‐cooperative model of resource allocation within the household in developing countries that incorporates domestic violence as a vehicle for enhancing bargaining power. We demonstrate that the extent of domestic violence faced by women is not necessarily declining in their reservation utilities, or necessarily increasing in their spouses’. Using the National Family Health Survey data of India for 1998–99, we isolate…
Status, Caste, and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India
We argue that women may be disinclined to participate in market work in the rural areas of India because of family status concerns in a culture that stigmatizes market work by married women. We set out a theoretical framework that offers predictions regarding the effects of caste-based status concerns on the time allocation of women. We then use the all-India National Sample Survey data for the year 2004–5 and the Time Use Survey for six states o…
A gender-based theory of the origin of the caste system of India
Can Competition and Patent Policies Avert the Antibiotic Crisis
Countries worldwide face an antibiotics health crisis. Resistant bacteria are rendering the current stock of antibiotics ineffective, and the pipeline of back-up drugs is running dry. Canada contributes more than its share to this global problem, with per-capita doses of antibiotics exceeding those of many of its peer countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In a simple dynamic framework, we identify an efficient p…
On Reducing the Sexual Assault of Women
In Canada, it is estimated that only about 5 percent of sexual assaults are reported to police and fewer than 1 percent of assaults result in convictions. The reasons for this are discussed in this commentary using results from a formal model in economic theory. In the model, if police overestimate the probability that women’s reports of assault are false, as the evidence clearly documents, they under-investigate. This in turn reduces the reporti…
The Wrongs of Property Rights
Je propose un modèle économique théorique dans lequel la privatisation d’une réserve autochtone en la divisant en parcelles individuelles en fief simple peut abaisser le niveau de bien-être des groupes autochtones. En m’appuyant sur les effets démontrés de l’érosion de la culture autochtone et des droits de propriété communaux, je propose une explication partielle de la raison pour laquelle le bien-être subjectif auto-évalué des peuples autochton…
The Nature of Labor’s Vulnerability to Exploitation
I identify a hitherto unrecognized contribution of labor to production stemming from an innate sense of psychological ownership of the fruits of one’s labor. This is rooted in the consciousness accompanying all human activities and is distinct from legal ownership. Consciousness is inalienable; it cannot be contracted on. Labor’s psychological ownership generates quasi-rents, which can be appropriated by capitalist firms with market power. Monops…
Economics (19 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Economic growth (7 obras) · Microeconomics (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Developing country (5 obras) · Production (economics (5 obras) · Autonomy (4 obras)