Efficiency and Equity in Welfare Economics

Increasing efficiency in generating national income and improving equity in its distribution among economic agents is at the forefront of priorities of most modern economies. This book presents a model which aims to maximize a symmetrical welfare function under certain constraints which consider bot...

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Main Author: Nicola, PierCarlo. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 661
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30071-4
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505 0 |a Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives and Performance -- Summary Example and Numerical Simulations: A Summary Example -- Implementing the Example: One Time Period -- Dynamics: Many Time Periods -- Final Remarks -- Appendix: Implementing 2008 Income Data for Italy. 
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