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L'analyse de surplus appliquée

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  • Vivien Lévy-Garboua

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[fre] D'après Musgrave, les fonctions économiques d'un Etat moderne sont orientées dans trois directions séparées : allocation des ressources productives, distribution des revenus et objectifs de politique économique majeurs : plein emploi, crois­sance et lutte contre l'inflation. Ici l'auteur propose d'unifier l'analyse et de recourir pour cela à l'analyse de surplus. Malheureusement celle-ci a, telle qu'elle est employée ordinairement, le défaut de conduire à des résultats très approximatifs en ce qui concerne la mesure d'un état donné de bien-être social. Mais il est possible, et c'est la contribution de l'auteur, de fixer dans une situation concrète beaucoup plus explicitement les limites de variations de certaines contraintes et de parvenir ainsi en fin de chaîne à des résultats plus précis et plus utilisables par le décideur. Perdant de sa pureté mathématique, l'analyse de surplus se rapproche du calcul des erreurs analogue à celui du physicien appliqué. [eng] On the applications of the surplus analysis . . According to Musgrave a modem state should strive towards three different goals : productive ressources allocation, income distribution and some macroeconomic results concerning growth, employment and inflation. But there are some short comings in the analysis and the author pledges in favour of a more comprehensive approach of the public economy and he purposes the use of the surplus analysis. Unfortunately the method, as it is a generally developped, leads only to some approximation of a social welfare and for the decision maker, such an approximation is useless. But it is possible to make several constraints of the models more explicit and then much better approximations of the resulting situation can be derived. The surplus analysis becomes, far form the purity of the mathematical model, doser to the calculus of errors in applied physics.

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  • Vivien Lévy-Garboua, 1975. "L'analyse de surplus appliquée," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 26(6), pages 987-1003.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_1975_num_26_6_408240
    DOI: 10.3406/reco.1975.408240
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