A recurrent concern of researchers who measure the cost of protection is that welfare estimates based on models with …

Proposes a model which shows that Stackelberg competition is not necessarily welfare‐ enhancing compared with Cournot … than Cournot. Derives conditions under which in this framework Stackelberg competition leads to lower expected welfare, in …

critique of welfare economics and his concern with underdevelopment and poverty. It is argued that Sen has done a great deal to … rescue welfare economics from the consequences of methodological individualism by seeking an objective basis for comparisons …

functional requirements of large‐scale welfare provision. Britain provides perhaps the best example of this issue being settled … requirement, with the economic welfare of communities being equated to total welfare. The adoption of a postmodernist stance … economic welfare is not necessarily the same as the maximisation of total welfare. Postmodernist arguments are used in this …

Poverty dynamics and the ability of the Italian welfare system to reduce poverty are investigated by using the 1991 …

Government’s long‐term aim is to build on this experience and create a “work‐based welfare state” for all those of working age …

Purpose – Paper argues that the proper approach to the topic of economic welfare should include an appreciation that … welfare which arise in conditions of non-equilibrium. The purpose of this paper is to propose Winfield’s reconstruction of …

Examines the relationship between public welfare and the pursuit of happiness via a discussion on the conception on … public welfare provision and the way in which it is received as consumption. Introduces concepts on organized welfare and … positions individual happiness in the realm of consumption, and argues that state‐organized welfare polity has unintentionally …