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Measuring WTO's contributions to global economic welfare

Anderson, Kym - 2014

International Economics 73: 309-332 -- Bagwell, Kyle and Robert W. Staiger (1999), 'An Economic Theory of GATT', American Economic …: 283-313 -- Bhagwati, Jagdish N. (1971), 'The Generalized Theory of Distortions and Welfare', pp. 69-90 in Trade, Balance … (2003), Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press -- Corden, W. Max (1963 …

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Market failure or success : the new debate

Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...

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The economics of social protection

Söderström, Lars - 2008

This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth...

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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition

Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis

In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...

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The history of economic analysis : selected essays

Creedy, John - 1998

This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an...

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Economics, welfare policy, and the history of economic thought : essays in honour of Arnold Heertje

Fase, M. M. G. (ed.); Kanning, W. (ed.); … - 1999

theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and … policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The …

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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications

Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew Kazimierz - 1996

Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...

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Status, growth, and the environment : goods as symbols in applied welfare economics

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Howarth, Richard B. - 2002

studies. Integrating theory and evidence from a range of social sciences, the authors argue that the satisfaction derived from …

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General equilibrium and welfare

Creedy, John - 1996

This major new book provides an accessible and innovative introduction to general equilibrium analysis and associated welfare economics. In this distinct and refreshing treatment, John Creedy develops a simple two sector model using only diagrams and simple mathematics to ensure that this...

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Applied evolutionary economics and complex systems

Foster, John (contributor); Hölzl, Werner (contributor) - European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics … - 2004

complex system theory. The authors argue that modern evolutionary economics is at a crossroads. At a theoretical level, modern … : some evidence from the first IT regime -- 7. An evolutionary approach to the theory of entrepreneurship -- 8. Shakeout in …

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