Welfare Measurement In Imperfect Markets: A Growth Theoretical Approach - Couverture rigide

Aronsson, Thomas; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf; Backlund, Kenneth

 
9781840647792: Welfare Measurement In Imperfect Markets: A Growth Theoretical Approach
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1840647795 ISBN 13 : 9781840647792
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors focused on the external effects associated with environmental damage and analysed their role in the context of social accounting. This book adopts a much broader perspective by analysing a wide spectrum of resource allocation problems of real-world market economies.

The authors' aim is to derive exact welfare measures in imperfect market economies and compare them with their counterparts in a first-best equilibrium. Using numerical analysis, they also attempt to make the leap from theory to practical application by measuring the empirical importance of market imperfections. Such analysis provides the tools for examining whether 'real life' approximations of the welfare contribution of external effects, such as information collected by using the willingness-to-pay method, actually capture true and accurate values. Finally, the authors address the theory of cost-benefit analysis, in terms of environmental and other public policies, in dynamic general equilibrium models.

This book is an impressive investigation of the theory of social accounting, with particular emphasis on valuation problems facing imperfectly competitive markets. It will make challenging but highly rewarding reading for academics and researchers interested in environmental economics, welfare measurement, social accounting and green accounting.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Aronsson, Professor of Economics, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Professor of Economics and Kenneth Backlund, Assistant Professor of Economics, Umeå University, Sweden

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840647795
ISBN 13 
9781840647792
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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Personne responsable
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