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This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the comparative approach by Amartya Sen, and the theory of fair ...
Baujard, Antoinette
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Welfare Economics: A Story of Existence [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to explore that, despite severe challenges, welfare economics still exists. This descriptive study is conducted through some specific time line developments in this field. Economists are divided over the veracity and survival
Khalid Iqbal
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Improving the Relationship between Welfare Economics and Ethics [PDF]
In this essay, the essential aspects of Welfare Economics are summarized in order to analyse the possible links with Ethics, and consequently to provide useful suggestions for Economic Policy.
Carmen Pagliari, Iacopo Odoardi
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Empirical welfare economics [PDF]
Welfare economics relies on access to agents' utility functions: we revisit classical questions in welfare economics, assuming access to data on agents' past choices instead of their utilities. Our main result considers the existence of utilities that render a given allocation Pareto optimal.
Chambers, Christopher P. +1 more
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THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION [PDF]
Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to people already living: creating people is morally neutral in itself. This paper examines the difficulties of incorporating this intuition into a coherent theory of the value of population.
Broome, John, John Broome
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Values in Welfare economics [PDF]
This chapter focuses on the inner rationale and consequences of four different archetypal positions regarding how ethical and political values are tackled in welfare economics.
Antoinette Baujard, Baujard, Antoinette
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Individualism and ethics:Samuelson's welfare economics [PDF]
This chapter explores the extent to which Samuelson's welfare economics went beyond ...
Roger E. Backhouse, Backhouse, Roger
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The Comparative study of the effect of ethical valuation different criteria on economic policy making and its implications for Islamic economics [PDF]
Although economists typically try to make their theories free from ethical evaluations, their theories are value laden. In this paper, we examine the impact of ethical schools on economic policies.
seyed mohammad ali mousavi +1 more
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This paper presents the results of various benefit–cost ratio (BCR) analyses of back-end nuclear fuel cycle alternatives. Korea is currently considering two alternatives for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel: direct disposal and pyroprocessing.
Sungki Kim, Jin-Seop Kim, Dong-Keun Cho
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Welfare Biology as an Extension of Biology. Interview with Yew-Kwang Ng
Yew-Kwang Ng is Winsemius professor in economics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and emeritus professor at Monash University. He has been a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980, and in 2007 received the highest ...
Max Carpendale
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