Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare : Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change

ISBN-13: 9780415562980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 280 str.

Martin Binder

Opis

This book explores the normative implications of an alternative, hedonist account of welfare, examining the foundations of welfare and connecting the concept with a dynamic theory of preference learning.

Recenzje

"If the assumption is no longer that our preferences and wants are fixed but that they change over time, how should we think of economic welfare? In a much needed book, Martin Binder puts a novel discussion of these crucial issues on a firm behavioural and evolutionary footing." - Jack Vromen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Spis treści

1.Introduction, 2. Conceptual Background and Welfare Terminology, 3. Other Approaches to Welfare Economics, 4. A Positive Basis: The Learning Theory of Consumption, 5. An Evolutionary Theory of Welfare, 6. Evolutionary Welfare Economics, 7. Concluding Remarks, Bibliography

O autorze

Martin Binder is a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany.