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Production, income, and welfare : the search for an optimal social order

Essays on the economic theory of relations between production functions, income and welfare in the search for an optimal global social system - presents economic models for measurement of income distribution and welfare; considers the social role of the informal sector and households; examines labour supply and employment opportunity and the optimal tax system; advocates socialism as enhancing equal opportunity. References, statistical tables
eBook, English, ©1985
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1985
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1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages)
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Part I. Production. Market-determined and residual incomes- some dilemmas (with Jacob Kol) ; Production functions with several factors ; Constraints on production functions : essential vs. non-essential factors ; Counterproduction : On collective and part -collective goods ; Production functions : research lacunae
Part II. Income formation. On a macroeconomic model of income formation (with Eckhard Wegner) ; The role of occupational status in income formation ; Determinants of manager incomes ; Two approaches to quantify the concept of equitable income distribution
Part III. Welfare functions. Measurements of social welfare ; The allocation of workers to jobs ; Some neglected determinants of welfare functions
Part IV. The optimal social order. The dynamic welfare maximum ; Some remarks on the optimal tax system ; Optimal education, occupation and income distribution in a simplistic model ; Ways to socialism ; Coexistence :from the past to the future ; Restructuring our societies : international coordination policies
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