Welfare Economics and Second-Best Theory - A Distortion-Analysis Protocol for Economic-Efficiency Prediction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way. It develops and legitimates an economically efficient economic-efficiency-analysis protocol with three unique characteristics: First, the protocol focuses separately on each of a wide variety of categories of economic inefficiency, many of which conventional analyses ignore. Second, it analyzes the impact of conduct or policies on each of these categories of economic inefficiency, primarily by predicting the respective conduct's/policy's impact on the distortion that the economy's various Pareto imperfections generate in the profits yielded by the resource allocations associated with the individual categories of economic inefficiency-i.e., on the difference between their profitability and economic efficiency. And third, it is third-best-i.e., it instructs the analyst to execute a theoretical or empirical research project if and only if the economic-efficiency gains the project is expected to generate by increasing the accuracy of economic-efficiency conclusions exceed the predicted allocative cost of its execution and public financing. The book also uses the protocol to analyze the economic efficiency of specific policies so as to illustrate both how it differs from the protocols that most applied welfare economists continue to use and how its conclusions differ from those produced by standard analysis.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Richard S. Markovits
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	356
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-043359-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
LSN:	3-03-043359-5
Barcode:	9783030433598

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