TY - BOOK AU - Arrow,Kenneth J. AU - Scitovsky,Tibor ED - American Economic Association. TI - Readings in welfare economics: selected by a committee of the American Economic Association SN - 0043380387 AV - HB99.3 .R4 U1 - 330.1 PY - 1969/// CY - Homewood, Illinois, London PB - R.D. Irwin, Allen & Unwin KW - Welfare economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - In selecting articles for this volume, the authors were guided by a multiplicity of aims. They had originally hoped to cover all the topics considered important and properly belonging to welfare economics, to include all the papers that made significant advances in their time, to reprint or translate contributions especially difficult to find in translation, and to present the theory in its most up-to-date form. The book covers the following: Foundations; Political Aspects of Welfare Economics; Social Versus Private Costs and Benefits; Increasing Returns; The Measurement of Welfare; Taxes and Prices and Investment and Growth ER -