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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Welfare Economics and Ethics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Economists Should Take Ethics Seriously
      Daniel M. Hausman, Michael S. Mcpherson
      Pages 3-20
    3. Credible Liberalization: Beyond the Three Theorems of Neoclassical Welfare Economics
      Peter J. Hammond
      Pages 21-39

  3. Economic Organization in Transition

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 41-41
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    2. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy after Fifty Years
      Arnold Heertje
      Pages 43-59
    3. Public Finance, Unemployment and Economies in Transition
      John S. Flemming
      Pages 60-79
    4. The Economics of Workers’ Enterprises
      Paul R. Kleindorfer, Murat R. Sertel
      Pages 80-99
    5. Public Expenditure and Tax Policy for Economic Development
      Christopher J. Heady
      Pages 100-117

  4. Distributional Effects of Social Policy

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Western Experience with Social Safety Nets
      Anthony B. Atkinson
      Pages 121-139
    3. Economics of Ageing
      Dieter Bös
      Pages 140-152
    4. Payment of Medical Providers and the Public Provision of Medical Care
      Mark V. Pauly
      Pages 153-174
    5. The Dynamics of Housing Prices: An International Perspective
      Peter Englund, Yannis M. Ioannides
      Pages 175-197
    6. Non-cash Income, Living Standards and Inequality: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
      Peter Saunders, Timothy M. Smeeding, John Coder, Stephen Jenkins, Johan Fritzell, Aldi J. M. Hagenaars et al.
      Pages 198-217
    7. Gender Inequality and Economic Development
      Jane Humphries
      Pages 218-233

About this book

Introduction

This third volume of the proceedings of the International Economic Association Congress in Moscow in 1992 contains twelve papers by eminent economists on public policy and economic organization. The papers span a wide variety of topics from the basic principles of ethics and welfare to economic transition from planned to market economies and the distributional effects of social policy.

Keywords

capitalism Distribution economics public finance transition unemployment

Editors and affiliations

  • Dieter Bös
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of EconomicsUniversity of BonnGermany

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