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  Index

  A

  Ability to pay principle 197, 204 Accounting methods 87, 96, 205, 333

  Accountability 129, 158, 193 Action-oriented approach 100, 108, 111

  Absolute risk aversion 303 Agent-type 175, 195

  All other things being equal 34, 53, 330

  Ambiguity 48, 103, 238

  Asymmetric information 61, 152, 161, 172, 289, 333

  Agency problem 6, 195, 332 Artha 11, 48, 51, 58, 60, 63, 97, 105, 121, 131, 179, 181, 184, 245, 329

  Auditing 87, 96, 110, 112, 157, 176, 186

  Axiomatic approach 69

  Axiom of comparison 68

  Axiom of consistency 69

  B

  Backward bending supply curve 309

  Backward induction 61, 99, 101, 322

  Backward-looking 273

  Benefit principle 197, 204, 262 Benevolent man 14, 111

  Birth-death-rebirth cycle 102, 114, 134

  Bookkeeping 86, 155

  Bounded rationality 61, 157, 161-164, 329

  Budgeting 86

  Buffer stock 80, 215, 227

  C

  Calamities 5, 60, 87, 121, 187, 222, 254, 321

  Capital account 197, 212

  Cardinal approach 68

  Cartelisation 150

  Character-building 105, 121 Choice-influencing 70

  Chronological priority 46

  Civic virtues 206

  Classics 39

  Cobb-douglas technology 179 Cognitive constraint 162

  Cognitive division of labour 157 Collective property 260

  Commercial man 14, 41, 111 Common property 258, 261 Comparative advantage 13, 230 Comparative risk assessment analysis 216

  Concessionary loans 128

  Conflict of interest 157, 335 Constrained maximization 54, 63, 104, 163

  Contingency planning 55

  Contractarian 123

  Contractual theory 252

  Corrective justice, 268, 288 Cost-benefit analysis 59, 263, 313

  Corrective taxes 150

  Covariance 92

  Credibility problem 314

  Crowding-in 184

  Crowd-out 334

  Crowding-out 184, 271, 334 Current account 197, 212

  D

  Data management 162

  Deadweight loss 5, 25, 38, 199, 202, 300

  Deductive 335

  Deep determinant 12, 125, 132, 141, 332

  Demand curve 80, 83

  Demand instability 85

  Demand-supply apparatus 79,85 Dharma-based 111

  Diminishing returns 7, 75, 331 Discounting 56, 85, 330

  Disruptions 5, 200, 203

  Distortions 199

  Diversification 49, 229, 302, 309, 333

  Double-entry bookkeeping 86, 96

  Dupuit-laffer-curve 7, 62, 97, 213

  Duty free imports 128

  E

  Economic analysis 7, 10, 66, 117,
161, 219, 251, 335

  Economic growth 12, 27, 62, 87, 124, 216, 221, 222, 236, 279, 329, 331

  Economies of scale 229

  Economic surplus 92, 141 Economic thought 32, 87, 232, 328

  Efficiency frontier 189, 300 Efficiency wages 62, 138, 176, 332

  Endogenous 51, 122, 229, 332 Engineering approach 13, 65 Enlightened self-interest 117, 137, 330

  Equity-efficiency trade-off 201 Eternal bliss 101, 134

  Ethical content 13, 32, 120 Ethical environment 12, 100, 134, 175, 245, 334

  Ethical grounding 103

  Ethics-based 97, 111, 334 Ethics-intensive 144

  Exogenous 51, 92, 139, 231 Explanation and prediction 62, 89, 96, 173

  Extensive game 321

  Externalities 62, 150, 273, 331 Extrinsic motivation, 13, 14, 80, 123, 138, 141, 183, 184, 195, 266, 318, 330, 334

  Factors of production 7, 71, 129, 209

  False accounting 90, 156

  Feasibility frontier 68-300 Financial rules and regulations 88, 155

  Fiscal federalism 205

  Food-for-work programmes 219 Forward-looking 70, 273 Freedom from fear 15, 233, 291 Freedom from want 14, 97, 232, 291

  Foundational 99

  Functional classification 197

  G

  Game-theoretic 313

  General-purpose technology (GPT) 92, 96, 333

  Government failure 12, 143, 159, 237

  Good governance 12, 100, 125, 127, 157, 260

  H

  Hidden actions 151

  Hidden information 152

  Hierarchical 51, 185, 317

  Hindsight 36

  Hindu civilization 12, 63, 130, 329, 332

  Hindu growth rate 12

  Historical reconstruction 35, 36 Human capital 129, 131, 231, 269

  Human security 4

  I

  Illiquidity 82

  Impartial judicial system 1, 5 Imperial 33

  Import-substituting 13

  Income possibility frontier 136 Income-shifting 206

  Income statements 88

  Income tax 197, 213, 331 Indifference curves 67, 70, 122, 273

  Inductive 330

  Information-based 145, 151 Information management 162 Information revolution 67,161,169 Inquisition 59

  Internalization 104

  Inter-dependent 33, 43

  Inter-disciplinary matrix 58 Inter-temporal 34, 56

  Intrinsic motivation 138

  Invariance hypothesis 298, 333 Isocost curve 179, 184

  Isoquants 67, 78

  Kautilya’s tax system 207

  Knowledge-based 296

  Knowledge-intensity 163

  Knowledge management 162, 335

  L

  Labour-augmenting 78

  Labour theory of property 233, 251, 260, 266

  Labour theory of value 265 Law of the jungle 148, 198, 245 Legalistic approach 100,108,250 Legal error 239, 240, 332

  Leisure-seeking 188

  Lex tallionis 283

  Linear income tax 197, 204, 331 Liquidity 82, 324, 330

  Lockean first occupancy

  theory 251

  Locus classicus 36

  Logic-based 13

  Loss-aversion hypothesis 292, 299

  Lumpsum tax 198, 201

  J

  Judicial fairness 5, 137, 237, 239 Justice 235 K

  Kama 51, 60, 105, 179, 184, 203, 245

  Kautilya-curve 62, 210

  Kautilya disaster relief action plan 219

  M

  Matching incentive 181 Macroeconomics 45

  Malfeasance 286

  Malpractice 22, 269, 281 Marginal analysis 47, 53, 63 Marginalism 330

  Marketed surplus 284

  Material health 11, 184 Material incentives 12, 141, 174, 195, 334

  Material prosperity 32

  Materialism 23, 183

  Mean-variance approach 303 Mercantilism 12, 231

  Mercantilist 39, 41, 87, 92, 227 Microeconomics 33, 42

  Missing markets 152, 229, 242 Model specification 139

  Moksha 105, 184

  Monopoly 25, 38, 62, 71, 144, 177, 256, 331

  Monopsony 25, 62, 148, 331 Moral anchoring 5

  Moral capital 102, 105

  Moral content 13

  Moral degradation 103

  Moral desert 103

  Moral dilemma 147

  Moral duty 113, 142, 222, 257 Moral fabric 272

  Moral failure 14, 144, 156 Moral hazard 62, 145, 192, 330 Moral incentive 126, 175, 190, 278 Moral motivation 14, 141, 183, 184, 195, 266, 334

  Moralistic approach 100, 108

  N

  Nation-building 62

  National income accounts 87, 92 National security 28, 63, 72, 73, 119, 227, 289

  Negligence-based 270, 278 Non-cooperative game 207 Nonfeasance 286

  O

  Optimal tax 207

  Organizational design 108, 144, 159, 334

  Organizational man 157

  Opportunity cost 166, 265, 282, 325, 329

  Optimization 34, 46, 54, 62, 77, 82, 272-325

  Ordinal preferences 67, 68

  P

  Paradigm shift 21, 89, 169 Pareto efficient contract curve 225 Pareto static efficiency criterion 278 Partial equilibrium approach 33, 50, 63

  Perceived probability 247

  Periodic accounting 86, 88 Penalty-penance mix 268

  Physiocrat 39, 92

  Possibility frontier 68, 73, 153 Pragmatic approach 144

  Principles of taxation 196, 199 Principal-agent problem 12, 49, 175, 195, 237, 332

  Private marginal cost 150, 262 Private property rights 5, 124, 159, 201, 251, 260, 331

  Probability distribution 243, 299

  Producer surplus 62, 197, 208, 211, 329

  Public goods 38, 62, 148, 209, 289, 292

  R

  Rational fool 126

  Rational reconstruction 35, 43, 67, 181, 329

  Record keeping 86, 95

  Regression model 91

  Relative asset hypothesis 292, 297 Relative power equation 292, 295

  Relative risk-aversion 303

  Rent-seeking 145, 328, 332 Restraints 104, 128

  Restitutio in integrum 280 Retrospection 37

  Revenue-yielding capacity 6, 95, 210

  Risk-aversion 188, 303, 333 Risk management 217

  Risk premium 7, 132, 255, 333 Risk-return trade-off 132, 303, 333

  Risk-taking 62, 106, 176, 333 Rule of law 5, 62, 236, 332 Rules versus discretion 246

  S

  Safety net 118, 196, 203 Science of man 61

  Second generation 12, 63 Secular law 267, 287 Self-centeredness 145

  Self-improvement 102

  Self-insurance 220

  Separation theorem 300

  Sexual harassment 111, 145, 180, 331

  Sharecropping 176, 193, 194 Shirking 176, 188

  Silver rule 283, 100

  Social marginal cost 150, 261 Social thorns 14, 233

  Sources of economic growth 12, 61, 125, 129, 142, 331

  Spiritual health 11, 184

  Spiritual law 267

  Sovereign immunity 286

  Statistical methods 10,91,240,333 Substitution effect 199

  Substitution possibilities 77, 85 Suo motu 248

  Supply curve 67, 83, 309

  System-building 47, 62, 102, 104, 274

  T

  Taxation power 6, 210

  Tax holidays 128

  Tax shifting 6, 210

  Technique-based 32

  Tort liabilities 268

  Tragedy of anti-commons 260 Tragedy of commons 260 Theory of the gains from trade 226, 231

  Theoretical skeleton 63

  Thinking machines 181

  Time inconsistency problem 62, 289, 312

  Transaction costs 82, 132, 158, 253, 274

  Transparency 193

  Type I error 237, 248

  Type II error 237, 244

  Veil of ignorance 252

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sp; Virtues 4, 62, 101, 206, 329 Virtuous cycle 142

  W

  Water-diamond paradox 82, 330 Welfarism 123

  Wisdom-based management 162, 165, 166

  V

  Value added 95, 283 Value-neutral 181 Z

  Zero-sum game 299

 

 

 


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