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Economics of population versus economic demography
The article specifies the correlation between economic demography and the economy of population as the most important scientific areas of modern research.
A. A. Tkachenko
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Valuing Lives Equally and Welfare Economics [PDF]
Welfare economics, in the form of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, is at present internally inconsistent and ethically unappealing. We address these issues by proposing two ethical axioms: society prefers Pareto improvements and society ...
David Canning
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Welfare economics of managing an epidemic: an exposition. [PDF]
Iwamoto Y.
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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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How Much Income Inequality Is Too Much? [PDF]
We propose a highly schematic economic model in which, in some cases, wage inequalities lead to higher overall social welfare. This is due to the fact that high earners can consume low productivity, non essential products, which allows everybody to remain employed even when the productivity of essential goods is high and producing them does not require
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DENNIS ROBERTSON ON UTILITY AND WELFARE IN THE 1950s [PDF]
The paper investigates Dennis Robertson's effort to defend the Cambridge utilitarian tradition against the so-called "new welfare economics" in the 1950s.
Mauro Boianovsky
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Chronicle of the 1st International Animal Welfare Summit – Vienna, 24th April 2018
On April 24th, 2018 the international animal welfare organization FOUR PAWS hosted the 1st International Animal Welfare Summit in Vienna, Austria. The meta-question of the event: “Animal welfare – A Necessity for Human Survival or Only a Concern for the ...
Martina Pluda
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The Welfare of Ramsey Optimal Policy Facing Auto-Regressive Shocks [PDF]
With non-controllable auto-regressive shocks, the welfare of Ramsey optimal policy is the solution of a single Riccati equation of a linear quadratic regulator. The existing theory by Hansen and Sargent (2007) refers to an additional Sylvester equation but miss another equation for computing the block matrix weighting the square of non-controllable ...
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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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THE WELFARE STATE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE [PDF]
The Welfare State has come under attack from economists, particularly in Western Europe, who argue that it is responsible for poor economic performance, and that public spending should be reduced.
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