Economic welfare : concepts and measurement / edited by John Creedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Creedy, John, 1949-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

International library of critical writings in economics ; 107.

Elgar reference collection

The international library of critical writings in economics ; 107

An Elgar reference collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare economics.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [1999]

Contents:

Part I Concepts of Welfare Change and Excess Burden

1. 'Money Metric Utility: A Harmless Normalization?', Journal of Economic Theory, 46, 120-29 (1988) / Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson 3

2. 'Measuring Welfare Changes When Quantity is Constrained', Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13 (1), January, 95-103 (1995) / Jon A. Breslaw, J. Barry Smith 13

3. 'Compensating Variation, Consumer's Surplus, and Welfare', American Economic Review, 70 (5), December, 933-49 (1980) / John S. Chipman, James C. Moore 22

4. 'The Measurement of Consumer Surplus and the Path Dependence Problem', Public Finance, XXXII (3), 293-310 (1977) / B.G. Dahlby 39

5. 'The Distance Function in Consumer Behaviour with Applications to Index Numbers and Optimal Taxation', Review of Economic Studies, XLVI (3/144), 391-405 (1979) / Angus Deaton 57

6. 'Some Uses of the Expenditure Function in Public Finance', Journal of Public Economics, 3 (1), February, 3-21 (1974) / P.A. Diamond, D.L. McFadden 72

7. 'Consumer's Surplus: Simple Solutions to an Old Problem', Bulletin of Economic Research, 47 (4), 285-94 (1995) / Udo Ebert 91

8. 'The Ambiguity of the Consumer's Surplus Measure of Welfare Change', Oxford Economic Papers, 26 (1), March, 66-77 (1974) / C.D. Foster, H.L.I. Neuburger 101

9. 'The Deadweight Loss From a Tax System', Journal of Public Economics, 13, 111-19 (1980) / J.A. Kay 113

10. 'On Measures of Excess Burden and their Application', Journal of Public Economics, 43, 263-89 (1990) / Joram Mayshar 122

11. 'Correct and Incorrect Measures of the Deadweight Loss of Taxation', Public Finance, XXXXI (2), 267-75 (1986) / Wilfried Pauwels 149

12. 'Excess-Burden and Economic Surplus as Consistent Welfare Indicators', Public Finance, XXXV (3), 439-49 (1980) / Elisha A. Pazner, Efraim Sadka 158

13. 'A Note on the Consumer Surplus Path-of-integration Problem', Economica, 50 (197), February, 95-8 (1983) / Dale O. Stahl II 169

14. 'Consumer's Surplus Without Apology', American Economic Review, 66 (4), 589-97 (1976) / Robert D. Willig 173

15. 'Inverse Demand Systems and Welfare Measurement in Quantity Space', Southern Economic Journal, 63 (1), 663-79 (1997) / H. Youn Kim 182

Part II Approximations and Marginal Changes

16. 'The Theory of Reform and Indian Indirect Taxes', Journal of Public Economics, 25 (3), December, 259-98 (1984) / Ehtisham Ahmad, Nicholas Stern 201

17. 'Tax Reform and Welfare Measurement: Do We Need Demand System Estimation?', Economic Journal, 106, September, 1227-41 (1996) / James Banks, Richard Blundell, Arthur Lewbel 241

18. 'Distributional Equity and the Optimal Structure of Public Prices', American Economic Review, 62, 32-6 (1972) / Martin S. Feldstein 256

19. 'An Analysis of Indirect Tax Reform in Ireland in the 1980s', Fiscal Studies, 16 (1), February, 18-37 (1995) / David Madden 261

20. 'Marginal Tax Reform and the Specification of Consumer Demand Systems', Oxford Economic Papers, 48 (4), October, 556-67 (1996) / David Madden 281

21. 'Conditional Demands and Marginal Tax Reform', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 59 (2), May, 237-55 (1997) / David Madden 293

22. 'Dalton-Improving Indirect Tax Reform', American Economic Review, 85 (4), September, 793-807 (1995) / Joram Mayshar, Shlomo Yitzhaki 312

23. 'The Distributional Impact of Price Changes in Hungary and the United Kingdom', Economic Journal, 105, July, 847-63 (1995) / David M. Newbery 327

Part I Marginal Welfare Cost and Cost of Funds

1. 'Distortionary Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6 (3), Summer, 117-31 (1992) / Charles L. Ballard, Don Fullerton 3

2. 'The Total Welfare Cost of the United States Tax System: A General Equilibrium Approach', National Tax Journal, XXXVIII (2), June, 125-40 (1985) / Charles L. Ballard, John B. Shoven, John Whalley 18

3. 'On the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation', American Economic Review, 77 (1), March, 11-23 (1987) / Edgar K. Browning 34

4. 'The Marginal Cost of Public Funds', Journal of Political Economy, 84 (2), April, 283-98 (1976) / Edgar K. Browning 47

5. 'The Marginal Cost of Australian Income Taxation', Economic Record, 58 (162), September, 253-62 (1982) / Christopher C. Findlay, Robert L. Jones 63

6. 'Reconsidering the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation', Economic Record, 71 (213), June, 121-31 (1995) / John Freebairn 73

7. 'Reconciling Recent Estimates of the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation', American Economic Review, 81 (1), March, 302-8 (1991) / Don Fullerton 84

8. 'The Welfare Cost of Taxation in New Zealand Following Major Tax Reforms', New Zealand Economic Papers, 29 (1), June, 41-62 (1995) / Paul C. McKeown, Alan E. Woodfield 91

9. 'On Marginal Cost and Marginal Benefit of Public Funds', Public Finance, 49 (1), 87-106 (1994) / Ronnie Schob 113

10. 'The Marginal Welfare Cost of Public Funds: Theory and Estimates', Journal of Public Economics, 61, 289-305 (1996) / Arthur Snow, Ronald S. Warren, Jr. 133

11. 'Welfare Costs per Dollar of Additional Tax Revenue in the United States', American Economic Review, 74 (3), June, 352-62 (1984) / Charles Stuart 150

12. 'The Relationship Between the Marginal Cost of Public Funds and Marginal Excess Burden', American Economic Review, 80 (3), June, 557-66 (1990) / Robert K. Triest 161

13. 'Tax Reform 1986 and Marginal Welfare Changes for Labor', Southern Economic Journal, 59 (1), July, 39-48 (1992) / Sally Wallace, Michael Wasylenko 171

14. 'Public Good Provision with Optimal and Non-Optimal Commodity Taxation', Economics Letters, 4, 59-64 (1979) / David E. Wildasin 181

Part II Empirical Measurement

15. 'Approximating a Cost-of-Living Index From Demand Functions: A Retrospect', Economics Letters, 49 (2), 147-55 (1995) / Bert M. Balk 189

16. 'The Effect of Income Taxation on the Labor Supply of Married Men in Sweden', Journal of Public Economics, 22 (2), November, 169-97 (1983) / N. Soren Blomquist 198

17. 'Public Goods as Characteristics of Non-Market Commodities', Economic Journal, 103, September, 1244-57 (1993) / N.E. Bockstael, K.E. McConnell 227

18. 'Welfare Estimation Using the Fourier Form: Simulation Evidence for the Recreation Demand Case', Review of Economics and Statistics, LXXIX (1), February, 88-94 (1997) / Michael D. Creel 241

19. 'On the Accuracy and Appropriateness of Alternative Measures of Excess Burden', Economic Journal Conference Papers, 93, 106-14 (1983) / J.S. Dodgson 248

20. 'On Reforming the Welfare System: Workfare Meets the Negative Income Tax', Journal of Public Economics, 51, 119-51 (1993) / Bernard Fortin, Michel Truchon, Louis Beausejour 257

21. 'The Theory of Welfare Cost Measurement', Journal of Political Economy, 83 (6), December, 1145-82 (1975) / John C. Hause 290

22. 'Exact Consumer's Surplus and Deadweight Loss', American Economic Review, 71, September, 662-76 (1981) / Jerry A. Hausman 328

23. 'Welfare Analysis of Tax Reforms Using Household Data', Journal of Public Economics, 21 (2), July, 183-214 (1983) / Mervyn A. King 343

24. 'Exact Welfare Measurement for Producers Under Uncertainty', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70 (3), August, 597-603 (1988) / Douglas M. Larson 375

25. 'Further Results on Willingness to Pay for Nonmarket Goods', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 23, 101-22 (1992) / Douglas M. Larson 382

26. 'Alternative Welfare Gain and Loss Measures', Western Economic Journal, IX (4), December, 349-68 (1971) / Herbert Mohring 404

27. 'Prices and Inequality: The United Kingdom Experience', Economic Journal, 84 (333), March, 32-55 (1974) / John Muellbauer 424

28. 'The Statistical Precision of a Numerical Methods Estimator as Applied to Welfare Loss', Economics Letters, 20 (3), 255-7 (1986) / Susan Porter-Hudak, Kathy Hayes 448

29. 'Regional Welfare Loss Measures of the 1973 Oil Embargo: A Numerical Methods Approach', Applied Economics, 19 (10), October, 1317-27 (1987) / K. Hayes, S.

Porter-Hudak 451

30. 'The Measurement of Excess Burden with Explicit Utility Functions', Journal of Political Economy, 86 (2/2), April, S121-35 (1978) / Harvey S. Rosen 462

31. 'The Distributional Welfare Effects of Rising Prices in the United States: The 1970's Experience', American Economic Review, 76 (3), June, 335-49 (1986) / Thomas M. Stoker 477

32. 'Efficient Methods of Measuring Welfare Change and Compensated Income in Terms of Ordinary Demand Functions', Econometrica, 51 (1), January, 79-98 (1983) / Yrjo O. Vartia 492

33. 'Measurement of Consumer Gains from Market Stabilization', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70 (3), August, 616-27 (1988) / Brian D. Wright, Jeffrey C. Williams 512.

Notes:

A collection of journal articles previously published 1972-1997.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1840641363

OCLC:

40754139