2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Social Welfare and Pareto Improvement
Author : Martin C. McGuire
Published in: Positive and Normative Analysis in International Economics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Broadly speaking, welfare economics over the past three-quarters of a century deserves credit for many signal developments in the world economy: the expansion of free trade, the extension of competition, and the deregulation of industries such as transportation, energy, communications and finance. Every world leader with a university degree now probably subscribes to the broad principles of welfare economics — in theory, if not always in practice.