Welfare economics

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Contents[hide]
1 Two approaches
2 Efficiency
3 Income distribution
4 A simplified seven-equation model
5 Efficiency between production and consumption
6 Social welfare maximization
7 Welfare economics in relation to other subjects
8 Paretian Welfare Economics
9 Criticisms
10 See also
11 Sources
12 References
See also
Arrow's impossibility theorem
Compensation principle
Consumer surplus
Copenhagen Consensus
Cost-benefit analysis
Distribution (economics)
Equity (economics)
Feminist economics
Gini coefficient
Income inequality metrics
Important publications in welfare economics
Justice (economics)
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency
List of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
List of economics topics
Lorenz curve
Microeconomics
National Income (national income accounting)
Pareto efficiency
Social welfare function
Social welfare (political science)
[edit] Sources
Arrow, Kenneth J. (1951, 2nd ed., 1963). Social Choice and Individual Values, Yale University Press, New Haven.
Atkinson,Anthony B. (1975). The Economics of Inequality, Oxford University Press, London.
Bator, Francis M. (1957). "The Simple Analytics of Welfare Maximization," American Economic Review, 47(1), pp. 22-59.
Calsamiglia, Xavier, and Alan Kirman (1993). "A Unique Informationally Efficient and Decentralized Mechanism with Fair Outcomes," Econometrica, 61(5) , pp. 1147-1172.
Chipman, John S., and James C. Moore (1978). "The New Welfare Economics 1939-1974," International Economic Review, 19(3), pp. 547-584.
Feldman, Allan M. (1987). "equity," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 2, pp. 183-84.
_____ (1987). "welfare economics," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 4, pp. 889-95.
Feldman, Allan M., and Roberto Serrano, [1980] 2006. Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, 2nd ed. ISBN 0387293671, ISBN 9780387293677 Arrow-serachable chapter previews.
Harberger, Arnold C. (1971) "Three Basic Postulates for Applied Welfare Economics: An Interpretive Essay," Journal of Economic Literature, 9(3), pp. 785-797.
Just, Richard et al. (2004), The Welfare Economics of Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton.
Little, I.M.D. (1950; 2002). A Critique of Welfare Economics, Oxford. Preview. ISBN 0-19-828119-6.
Ng, Yew-Kwang (1979; rev. ed., 1983). Welfare economics. London: Macmillan.
O'Connell, John F. (1982) Welfare Economic Theory, Auburn House Publishing, Boston.
Samuelson, Paul A. (1947, Enlarged ed. 1983). "Welfare Economics," Foundations of Economic Analysis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, ch. VIII, pp. 203-53.
_____ (1981). "Bergsonian Welfare Economics", in S. Rosefielde (ed.), Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism: Essays in Honor of Abram Bergson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 223-66.
Sen, Amartya K. (1963). "Distribution, Transitivity and Little's Welfare Criteria," Economic Journal, 73(292), p. 771-78.
Suzumura, Kotaro (1980). "On Distributional Value Judgments and Piecemeal Welfare Criteria," Economica, 47(186), pp. 125-39.
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