TY - BOOK AU - Cowen,Tyler TI - Economic welfare T2 - Critical Ideas In Economics SN - 1858989310 AV - HB99.3 .E24 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA PB - Edward Elgar KW - ECONOMIA DEL BIENESTAR KW - POLITICA ECONOMICA N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents:Acknowledgements * IntroductionPart I: Foundations1. Hal R. Varian (1984), `General Equilibrium Theory and Welfare Economics'2. Arnold C. Harberger (1971), `Three Basic Postulates for Applied Welfare Economics: An Interpretive Essay'3. Amartya Sen (1979), `Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What's Wrong With Welfare Economics?'4. Tyler Cowen (1993), `The Scope and Limits of Preference Sovereignty'5. Steven Kelman (1981), `Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique'6. Robert Cooter and Peter Rappoport (1984), `Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics?'7. Amartya Sen (1984), `The Living Standard'8. Tyler Cowen (1991), `What a Non-Paretian Welfare Economics Would Have to Look Like'Part II: Cost-Benefit Analysis9. Robert D. Willig (1976), `Consumer's Surplus Without Apology'10. John S. Chipman and James C. Moore (1978), `The New Welfare Economics 1939-1974'11. Richard G. Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster (1997), `The General Theory of Second Best'12. Robert C. Lind (1982), `A Primer on the Major Issues Relating to the Discount Rate for Evaluating National Energy Projects'13. Martin J. Bailey and Michael C. Jensen (1972), `Risk and the Discount Rate for Public Investment'14. Daniel A. Graham (1981), `Cost-Benefit Analysis under Uncertainty'15. T.C. Schelling (1968), `The Life You Save May Be Your Own'16. Richard A. Posner (1981), `The Ethical and Political Basis of Wealth Maximization'17. Ronald M. Dworkin (1980), `Is Wealth a Value?'18. Arnold C. Harberger (1978), `On the Use of Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis'Part III: Social Choice and Utilitarianism19. Allan M. Feldman (1974), `A Very Unsubtle Version of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem'20. Kenneth J. Arrow (1984), `A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare'21. John Rawls (1972), excerpt from `Justice as Fairness' 22. John C. Harsanyi (1955), `Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility'23. Amartya Sen (1970), `The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal'24. Robert Nozick (1974/1995), `How Liberty Upsets Patterns' and `Sen's Argument' 25. Robert Sugden (1978), `Social Choice and Individual Liberty' and `Discussion'26. Derek Parfit (1986), `Overpopulation and the Quality of Life'Name Index ER -