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Conceptions of Individual Rights and Freedom in Welfare Economics: A Re-examination [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines the literature in welfare economics with a focus on individual rights and freedom, two important components in welfare economics. The paper discusses conceptions of rights and freedom intuitively and presents a critical examination of
Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Yongsheng Xu
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Toward Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics [PDF]
, 2007 Interest in behavioral economics has grown in recent years, stimulated largely by accumulating evidence that the standard model of consumer decision making provides an inadequate, positive description of human behavior. Behavioral models are increasingly
Bernheim, B. Douglas, Rangel, Antonio
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Beyond revealed preference: choice-theoretic foundations for behavioral welfare economics [PDF]
, 2008 We propose a broad generalization of standard choice-theoretic welfare economics that encompasses a wide variety of nonstandard behavioral models. Our approach exploits the coherent aspects of choice that those positive models typically attempt to ...
Bernheim, B. Douglas, Rangel, Antonio
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Economics and Politics: Perspectives on the Goals and Future of Antitrust [PDF]
, 2013 This Article examines the roles of economics and politics in U.S. antitrust from several perspectives. It explains why the modern debate over the economic welfare standard that enforcers and courts should pursue is unsatisfying.
Bigelow, Hetty +3 more
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Towards a Dynamic (Schumpeterian) Welfare Economics [PDF]
For an economy where knowledge plays an increasingly important role in shaping its dynamics, economics needs a dynamic (Schumpeterian) welfare theory.
Dolfsma, W.A.
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Introduction to social choice and welfare [PDF]
Social choice theory is concerned with the evaluation of alternative methods of collective decision-making, as well as with the logical foundations of welfare economics.
Kotaro Suzumura
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Agriculture and national welfare around the world: causality and international heterogeneity since 1960 [PDF]
Calculations of marginal welfare effects suggest that agricultural development has had important positive effects on national welfare, especially in developing countries. Latin American and Caribbean countries have also benefited from agricultural growth,
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio, Lederman, Daniel
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Subjective economic welfare [PDF]
Paradoxically, when economists analyze a policy's impact on welfare they typically assume that people are the best judges of their own welfare, yet resist directly asking them if they are better off. Early ideas of"utility"were explicitly subjective, but
Lokshin, Michael, Ravallion, Martin
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Welfare economics of managing an epidemic: an exposition. [PDF]
Jpn Econ Rev (Oxf), 2021 Iwamoto Y.
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The Approach of Ecological Economics [PDF]
This paper discusses the major tenets of ecological economics - including value pluralism, methodological pluralism, and multi-criteria policy assessment.
John M. Gowdy, Jon D. Erickson
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