Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction
Adler, Matthew D.
ISBN 10: 019064303X ISBN 13: 9780190643034
Published by Oxford University Press, 2019
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Synopsis:
This book provides an accessible yet rigorous overview of the social welfare function (SWF) as a tool for evaluating governmental policies.
About the Author:
Matthew D. Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University, and is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, drawing from both welfare economics and normative ethics.
Adler is the author of New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard, 2006; co-authored with Eric Posner) and Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis (Oxford, 2012). He edited the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy with Marc Fleurbaey (2016). He was an editor of the journal Legal Theory until 2017, and is now an editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
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