Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare : Proceedings of a Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain, by the International Economic Association

Roemer, John E. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1349252891 / ISBN 13: 9781349252893

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare : Proceedings of a Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain, by the International Economic Association
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349252891
• ISBN 13: 9781349252893
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The dramatic implosions of the centrally administered, non-democratic political systems in central and eastern Europe in the late 1980s have generated a body of research concerning the transition from public ownership, and the role of the market and other institutions in engendering good incentives for economic actors. The essays collected in this volume study property relations, their associated incentives and the consequent effects on welfare: the ubiquitous theme is that efficiency cannot be divorced from the distribution of productive assets.

About the Author

JOHN E. ROEMER is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he is also Director of the Program on Economy, Justice and Society. He is the author of over 90 academic articles and eight books including Egalitarian Perspectives: Essays in Philosphical Economics and A Future for Socialism. Roemer is on the board of several academic journals, and is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Economic Literature and Economic Design. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1986.