The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research

Wendy Olsen's papers that you can download

Morgan, J., and W. Olsen, (2007) "Defining Objectivity In Realist Terms: Objectivity as a Second-Order 'Bridging' Concept", Journal of Critical Realism, vol 6 no. 2, pgs 250-266; see also http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/JCR/) PDF and part 2 of same paper, PDF

Olsen, W.K. (2009) "Moral Political Economy and Moral Reasoning about Rural India: Four Theoretical Schools Compared", Cambridge Journal of Economics. PDF

Olsen, W.K. (2007, forthcoming), Pluralist Methodology for Development Economics: The Example of Moral Indian Labour Markets, Journal of Economic Methodology. Working Paper No. 53, Global Poverty research group, www.gprg.org. This paper is on moral overtones and moral undertones in statistical analysis.See www.gprg.org/pubs/workingpapers/pdfs/gprg-wps-053.pdf

Olsen, W.K. (2006) Pluralism, Tenancy and Poverty: Cultivating Open-Mindedness in Poverty Studies, Working Paper No. 26, Q2 Working Papers Series, www.q-squared.ca. (Toronto Canada), June.

Olsen, W.K. (2005), Moral Political Economy and Poverty: Four Theoretical Schools Compared, Global Poverty Research Group, Working Paper No. 31, www.gprg.org. See http://www.gprg.org/pubs/workingpapers/pdfs/gprg-wps-031.pdf.

Olsen, W.K. and S. Mehta (2006) A Pluralist Account of Labour Participation in India, Global Poverty Research Group, Working Paper No. 42, www.gprg.org. See http://www.gprg.org/pubs/workingpapers/pdfs/gprg-wps-042.pdf.

Olsen, W.K. (2004) Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-mindedness in Development Studies, Journal of Development Studies, October 2006. See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00220388.asp.

Social Structures of Accumulation conference, video introduction, and abstracts. Be sure to go down low into the page and find the video segments. Each one has a largish picture, and the ability to watch the lecture that was given by that person!

Indian tenancy and the social structures of accumulation: Olsen presentation in the SSA conference. Click to see the slides.

Olsen, Wendy, and Mehta (forthcoming, 2006) "The Right to Work and Differentiation in Indian Employment", Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Click to read the paper.

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