Introduction to welfare economics
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DOI: 10.1007/s11127-018-0594-5
Abstract: This is a revised version of Francesco Forte’s introductory lecture on welfare economics delivered in Charlottesville when he first arrived at the University of Virginia. It was then reproduced in the author’s mimeographed book “Introduction… read more here.
Keywords: introduction welfare; welfare economics; approach; economics ... See more keywords
PURE TIME PREFERENCE IN INTERTEMPORAL WELFARE ECONOMICS
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DOI: 10.1017/s0266267117000074
Abstract: Abstract: Several areas of welfare economics seek to evaluate states of affairs as a function of interpersonally comparable individual utilities. The aim is to map each state of affairs onto a vector of individual utilities,… read more here.
Keywords: welfare economics; time preference; economics; pure time ... See more keywords
Identity, ethics and behavioural welfare economics
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DOI: 10.1017/s0266267123000123
Abstract: Multiple selves is a conventional assumption in behavioural welfare economics for modelling intrapersonal well-being. Yet an important question is which self has normative authority over others. In this paper, we advance an argument for what… read more here.
Keywords: welfare economics; identity ethics; behavioural welfare; economics ... See more keywords
Homo Economicus, AIs, humans and rats: decision-making and economic welfare
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DOI: 10.1080/1350178x.2018.1527135
Abstract: ABSTRACT Critics of economics often highlight two related issues: the empirical falsity of the ‘homo economicus’ assumption of rational, self-interested maximisation; and the ethical consequences of models based on this assumption. Yet many experiments in… read more here.
Keywords: assumption; homo economicus; welfare economics; economics ... See more keywords
On the possibility of an anti-paternalist behavioural welfare economics
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DOI: 10.1080/1350178x.2021.1972128
Abstract: ABSTRACT Behavioural economics has taught us that human agents don't always display consistent, context-independent and stable preferences in their choice behaviour. Can we nevertheless do welfare economics in a way that lives up to the… read more here.
Keywords: economics; choice; welfare economics; anti paternalist ... See more keywords