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Economics in a Changing World

Volume 3: Public Policy and Economic Organization

  • Textbook
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Dieter Bös

    1. Institute of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany

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Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Welfare Economics and Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Economists Should Take Ethics Seriously

      • Daniel M. Hausman, Michael S. Mcpherson
      Pages 3-20

    3. Credible Liberalization: Beyond the Three Theorems of Neoclassical Welfare Economics

      • Peter J. Hammond
      Pages 21-39

  3. Economic Organization in Transition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy after Fifty Years

      • Arnold Heertje
      Pages 43-59

    3. Public Finance, Unemployment and Economies in Transition

      • John S. Flemming
      Pages 60-79

    4. The Economics of Workers’ Enterprises

      • Paul R. Kleindorfer, Murat R. Sertel
      Pages 80-99

    5. Public Expenditure and Tax Policy for Economic Development

      • Christopher J. Heady
      Pages 100-117

  4. Distributional Effects of Social Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Western Experience with Social Safety Nets

      • Anthony B. Atkinson
      Pages 121-139

    3. Economics of Ageing

      • Dieter Bös
      Pages 140-152

    4. Payment of Medical Providers and the Public Provision of Medical Care

      • Mark V. Pauly
      Pages 153-174

    5. The Dynamics of Housing Prices: An International Perspective

      • Peter Englund, Yannis M. Ioannides
      Pages 175-197

    6. Non-cash Income, Living Standards and Inequality: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

      • Peter Saunders, Timothy M. Smeeding, John Coder, Stephen Jenkins, Johan Fritzell, Aldi J. M. Hagenaars et al.
      Pages 198-217

    7. Gender Inequality and Economic Development

      • Jane Humphries
      Pages 218-233
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About this book

This third volume of the proceedings of the International Economic Association Congress in Moscow in 1992 contains twelve papers by eminent economists on public policy and economic organization. The papers span a wide variety of topics from the basic principles of ethics and welfare to economic transition from planned to market economies and the distributional effects of social policy.

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  • Institute of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany

    Dieter Bös

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