This book studies the relationships between economic growth and social welfare and the policy implications of these relationships for development. Understanding the relationships between economic growth and social welfare is an enduring issue within contemporary development economics and welfare...

An Introduction to Social Ethics and Normative Economics -- Kolm as a Contributor to Public Utility Pricing, Second-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation -- Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand -- Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable -- Inequality...

Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of 'experimentation' has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays...