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Human Well-Being and Economic Goals (Frontier Issues in Economic Thought, Vol 3)

Автор: Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin, Jonathan M. Harris, Kevin P. Gallagher, Program for the Study of Sustainable Change and Development
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ISBN: 1559635614
What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals addresses that issue, considering such questions as: Does the maximization of individual welfare really lead to social welfare? How can we deal with questions of relative welfare and of equity? How do we define, or at least understand, individual and social welfare? And how can these things be measured, or even assessed? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals brings together more than 75 concise summariesof the most significant literature in the field that consider issues of present and future individual and social welfare, national development, consumption, and equity. Like its predecessors in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought...
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