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Introduction: The Welfare Economics of the Welfare State [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1995
Outsiders to economics might be forgiven for thinking that welfare economics provides the theoretical underpinnings for the welfare state. But although the language is suggestive, the link between theoretical welfare economics and policy recommendations concerning the role of the public sector, the optimal degree of redistribution and social insurance,
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Welfare Economic Foundations [PDF]

open access: possible, 1979
Our purpose in this book is to provide a normative basis for public utility pricing and investment decisions. Accordingly we begin with a discussion of the welfare economic foundations of public policy decisions. A vast literature1 in welfare economics and cost-benefit analysis underlies these issues, but we aspire here only to a brief overview of the ...
Paul R. Kleindorfer, Michael A. Crew
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The economics of welfare

Business Horizons, 1972
Abstract We need to tone down the emotional content of the discussion of welfare and deal with facts. The author points out that public assistance takes two principal forms: crude and subtle. The former includes aid to the needy; subtle aid is given regardless of need. In the minds of many, crude programs are welfare, but the subtle programs are not.
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Welfare Economics

1975
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on welfare economics. Welfare economics can be considered as the normative branch of economics and it attempts at a valuation of the policy goals. It is concerned with the well-being of a group or of society as a whole. It must evaluate the various states in which an economy can be found. Each state would involve
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Welfarism on economic domains

Mathematical Social Sciences, 1998
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Economic growth and welfare

Minerva, 1973
During the last few years there has been a growing concern with the environment in the advanced countries of the world. This concern has provided ammunition for those who have questioned the desirability of further economic growth in these countries and even the feasibility or desirability of economic growth in the less developed countries.
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Justice and Welfare Economics

Review of Social Economy, 1959
The attempt to specify precisely the criteria to be used by the economist to evaluate economic policy and institutions has led to the development of that specialized branch of analysis known as "welfare economics." Bypassing the problem of interpersonal comparisons of utility by invoking the "compensation principle," welfare economics proceeds to ...
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The Economics of Welfare

2018
For Pareto, now an academic, the economics of welfare represents the logical link between general equilibrium on the one hand and the critique of economic policy on the other. In this chapter, the various phases of the most original element of Pareto’s economic thinking, tracing its origins quite evidently to his liberal activism, will be reconstructed
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The Problem of Economic Welfare [PDF]

open access: possible, 1954
The standard of living of a population is certainly one of the aspects of its economic situation which intimately affects the problem of immigration. It is not easy, however, to find satisfactory measures of this standard, notwithstanding the recent advances made in this regard by the development of economic analysis. While permitting greater precision,
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Price Distortion and Economic Welfare

Econometrica, 1970
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Foster, Edward, Sonnenschein, Hugo
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