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Public Economics : The Macroeconomic Perspective
Heer, Burkhard - 2019
Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397071
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Globalization and National Economic Welfare
Panic, M. - 2003
Globalization and National Economic Welfare makes an original, powerful and timely contribution to a highly topical issue that affects all countries by showing why globalization is unsustainable in the long term without fundamental changes in existing attitudes and institutions. The book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054073
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Efficiency, Equality and Public Policy : With a Case for Higher Public Spending
Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2000
This book provides compelling arguments for the exclusive concern with efficiency ('a dollar is a dollar') in all specific areas of public economic policy, leaving the objective of equality to be achieved through the general tax/transfer system. Public policies should ultimately maximize the sum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054306
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Welfare Economics : Towards a More Complete Analysis
Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2004
the foundation of public policy necessary. A theory of the third best is provided, with extension to the equality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054389
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Efficiency and Equity in Welfare Economics
Nicola, Pier Carlo - 2013
Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives and Performance -- Summary Example and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016231
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Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare : Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent
Binder, Constanze - 2015
, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019526
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Economic Sociodynamics
Grinberg, Ruslan Semenovič (contributor);  … - 2005
In this ambitious book, the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by reconsidering the principle of …In this book the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by removing the principle of individualism from its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520483
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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach : Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Kuklys, Wiebke (contributor) - 2005
Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520489
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Social Ethics and Normative Economics : Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm
Fleurbaey, Marc - 2011
-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation -- Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand -- Bidimensional … Advantage -- On Kolm's Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory -- Optimal Redistribution in the Distributive … with different population sizes? How can domain conditions in social choice theory be justified using Kolm's epistemic …
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From Walras to Pareto
Backhaus, Jürgen G. (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520619