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Efficiency and Equity in Welfare Economics

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  1. PierCarlo Nicola

    1. Dipto. Matematica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 661)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Overview

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      Pages 1-6

    4. Inequality and Poverty Indexes

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      Pages 17-28

  3. Welfare and Efficiency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    3. Efficiency and Welfare

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      Pages 41-47

    4. Information Incentives and Performance

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      Pages 49-51

  4. Summary Example and Numerical Simulations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. A Summary Example

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      Pages 55-68

    3. Implementing the Example: One Time Period

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      Pages 69-100

    4. Dynamics: Many Time Periods

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      Pages 101-126

    5. Final Remarks

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      Pages 127-131

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 133-156
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About this book

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 both efficiency and equity, i.e. taxes and subsidies, implemented by a public authority. The model is numerically implemented and considers a set of economic agents with starting incomes that satisfy Pareto income law under various values of the alpha parameter. Also, the model implementations respect the social production function. Various experiments are presented which show how income inequality (measured by means of the Lorenz curve and, what I call, the Lorenz-Gini inequality index) and measures of poverty are sensibly reduced by redistributing national income without lowering efficiency in production. A case study, or application, of Italian personal income in 2008 is also presented.
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  • Dipto. Matematica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

    PierCarlo Nicola

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PierCarlo Nicola was Professor of Mathematical Economics at the University of Milan, 1975-2009. Academician, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), since 2009 and Member of Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, since 1996.     
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