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Welfare and Efficiency in Public Economics

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Dieter Bös

    1. Institute of Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn 1, West Germany

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  2. Manfred Rose

    1. Alfred-Weber-Institute, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, West Germany

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  3. Christian Seidl

    1. Institute of Public Economics, University of Kiel, Kiel 1, West Germany

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Welfare and Efficiency Measures — General Aspects

    1. Applied Welfare Economics and Frisch’s Conjecture

      • George McKenzie
      Pages 1-20

    2. A Reconsideration of Debreu’s “Coefficient of Resource Utilization”

      • Michael Ahlheim
      Pages 21-48

    3. Measuring Welfare Changes in Quantity Constrained Regimes

      • Wilfried Pauwels
      Pages 49-70

    4. Poverty Measurement: A Survey

      • Christian Seidl
      Pages 71-147

    5. Poverty Measures, Inequality and Decomposability

      • Frank A. Cowell
      Pages 149-166

  3. Computing Welfare Effects of Fiscal Policy Programmes

    1. An Introduction to Applied General Equilibrium Tax Modelling

      • Georg Hirte, Wolfgang Wiegard
      Pages 167-203

    2. Incidence Effects of Changing the German Income Tax Rate Schedule

      • Manfred Rose, Hans Kungl, Bernhard Kühn
      Pages 205-246

    3. Income Tax Reduction and the Quantification of Welfare Gains — An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

      • Klaus Conrad, Iris Henseler-Unger
      Pages 247-262

  4. Welfare and Efficiency of Selected Fiscal Policy Measures

    1. Taxation

      1. On the Evaluation of Tax Systems
        • Udo Ebert
        Pages 263-280
      2. Comprehensive versus Neutral Income Taxation
        • Wolfram F. Richter
        Pages 281-295
      3. Neutral Taxation of Risky Investment
        • Wolfgang Buchholz
        Pages 297-316

    3. Privatization of Public Enterprises

      1. Welfare Effects of Privatizing Public Enterprises
        • Dieter Bös
        Pages 339-362

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 423-424
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About this book

Hans-Werner Sinn, Munich, West Germany This book contains 15 papers presented at a conference in Neresheim, West Ger­ many, in June 1986. The articles were selected by anonymous referees and most of them have undergone substantial revisions since their presentation. The common topic is measurement of welfare, both from efficiency and from equity perspectives. For many economists, welfare is a diffuse, arbitrary and am­ biguous concept. The papers collected in this book show that this view is not justified. Though not beyond all doubt, welfare theory today is crisp and clear, offering fairly straightforward measuring concepts. It even comes up with numbers that measure society's advantage or disadvantage from specific policy options in monetary units. Politicians get something they can intuitively understand and argue with, and they do not have to be afraid that all this is metaphysics or the result of the scientist's personal value judgements. Some economists, whom I would classify as belonging to the "everything is optimal" school, would claim that providing politicians with numerical welfare measures is superfluous or even dangerous. The world is as it is, and any attempt to give policy advice can only make things worse. I do not share this view. There are good policies and there are bad ones, but it may not be easy to distinguish between them. There is a role for consulting politicians, Dr.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn 1, West Germany

    Dieter Bös

  • Alfred-Weber-Institute, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, West Germany

    Manfred Rose

  • Institute of Public Economics, University of Kiel, Kiel 1, West Germany

    Christian Seidl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Welfare and Efficiency in Public Economics

  • Editors: Dieter Bös, Manfred Rose, Christian Seidl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73370-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73372-7Published: 06 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73370-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 424

  • Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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