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Contents (v) Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson (vii) Preface (ix) Note on Terminology (xi) I. Introduction (1) Welfare economics and positive economics (1) Individual welfare: general and economic (4) Group welfare (7) The classification of commodities (11) The observing economist (13) II. Technology (14) The private transformation functions (16) Certain conventions (17) External effects (18) The social transformation function (19) Corrective taxes and competition (22) The distribution of wealth (26) Appendix (28) Private and social rates of transformation (29) Integrability conditions (31) Second-order conditions (32) The distribution of wealth (32) III. Tastes (33) Utility and choice (33) The irrelevance of measurability (35) The utility function: certain conventions (40) External effects (43) Community indifference: the Scitovsky frontier (45) Corrective taxes and competition (47) Community indifference: the Bergson frontier (48) The individual and the household (52) Appendix (53) IV. Potential Welfare (55) The General Optimum (55) The welfare frontier (59) Potential benefit (64) Corrective taxes and competition (66) Appendix (71) The General Optimum (71) The welfare frontier (73) V
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- Author
- Johannes de Villiers Graaff
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1957
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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