Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pareto optimality in a market economy
- 3 The compensation principle and the social welfare function
- 4 Measuring welfare changes
- 5 Market failures — causes and welfare consequences
- 6 Public choice
- 7 A ‘Smorgasbord’ of further topics
- 8 How to overcome the problem of preference revelation: practical methodologies
- 9 Cost-benefit analysis
- 10 The treatment of risk
- Appendix: The consumer and the firm
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pareto optimality in a market economy
- 3 The compensation principle and the social welfare function
- 4 Measuring welfare changes
- 5 Market failures — causes and welfare consequences
- 6 Public choice
- 7 A ‘Smorgasbord’ of further topics
- 8 How to overcome the problem of preference revelation: practical methodologies
- 9 Cost-benefit analysis
- 10 The treatment of risk
- Appendix: The consumer and the firm
- References
- Index
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- An Introduction to Modern Welfare Economics , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991