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Modelling in happiness economics [PDF]
Computational Methods in Social Sciences, 2014 In modern times, in the context of an increasingly quantitative approach to economics, welfare has been related mostly to an economic actor’s income. With increasing complexity in social and economic life, studies moving beyond the income approach to ...
Raluca I. IORGULESCU
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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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Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Our forthcoming book, Welfare Theory, Public Action and Ethical Values challenges the belief that, until modern welfare economics introduced issues such as justice, freedom and equality, economists adopted what Amartya Sen called "welfarism." This is the belief that the welfare of society depends solely on the ordinal utilities of the individuals ...
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"Near" Weighted Utilitarian Characterizations of Pareto Optima [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We characterize Pareto optimality via "near" weighted utilitarian welfare maximization. One characterization sequentially maximizes utilitarian welfare functions using a finite sequence of nonnegative and eventually positive welfare weights. The other maximizes a utilitarian welfare function with a certain class of positive hyperreal weights.
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Identifying the Distribution of Welfare from Discrete Choice [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. We develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks.
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Defining the public domain in economic terms: Approaches and consequences for policy
Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2016 Stimulating innovation and growth in the so-called ‘creative economy’ is a current policy objective for national regulators. One policy lever traditionally applied to the creative sector is intellectual property, in particular the scope and term of ...
Kristofer Erickson
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Economic incentives for capacity reductions on interconnectors in the day-ahead market [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We consider a zonal international power market and investigate potential economic incentives for short-term reductions of transmission capacities on existing interconnectors by the responsible transmission system operators (TSOs). We show that if a TSO aims to maximize domestic total welfare, it often has an incentive to reduce the capacity on the ...
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A defense of Austrian welfare economics
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w NauceMurray N. Rothbard’s Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics is the defining contribution outlining the Austrian school’s approach to welfare theory.
Tate Fegley, Karl-Friedrich Israel
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The Pathological Paradigm of Neuroeconomics
Œconomia, 2011 This paper focuses mainly on the neuroeconomics of reward-processing behaviors, which is also known as “neurocellular economics” (Ross, 2008). It aims to demonstrate that neuroeconomists are implicitly influenced by medical concerns.
Nicolas Vallois
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Behavioral economics and the ‘new’ paternalism1
Russian Journal of Economics, 2015 The paper provides a critical appraisal of the normative program of behavioral economics known as ‘new paternalism’. First, it explores the theoretical foundations of behavioral economics, describes major behavioral anomalies associated with bounded ...
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
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