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A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development

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I. On individual welfare, 574. — II. An overview critique, 576. — III. The generalized production possibilities set, 579. — IV. Functional imperatives and individual development, 580. — V. Structural operation: Associative, cybernetic, and institutional patterning, 584. — VI. Recapitulation, 587. — VII. Work, 590. —VIII. Technology, 591. — IX. Education, 592. — X. Consumer sovereignty, 594. — XI. Conclusion, 595.

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  • Herbert Gintis, 1972. "A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 86(4), pages 572-599.
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