Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Memorandum,
Oslo University, Department of Economics
No 27/2013: Variations on a Theme by Gossen
Trygve Haavelmo and Olav Bjerkholt ()
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Trygve Haavelmo: Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo
Olav Bjerkholt: Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo, Postal: Department of Economics, University of Oslo, P.O Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Abstract: The memo consists of six papers on a common theme: applying economic analysis to subjects at the time, 1972, considered non-economic. The first paper considers changes in preferences. The second considers strategies of a regime and its opposition. The third discusses collective decision making in the light of Arrow's possibility theorem and the voting paradox. The fourth discusses some problems of inefficiency in modern industrialised societies, and the onsequences on the welfare of the population. The fifth discusses some aspects of redistributive policies, and the sixth various instances of the conflict between individual and collective rationality, particularly in the case of environmental and population policies.
Keywords: Welfare; government policy; relation of economics to other disciplines
73 pages, December 3, 2013
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