Welfare Economics in Large Worlds: Welfare and Public Policies in an Uncertain Environment
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- Guilhem Lecouteux, 2021. "Welfare economics in large worlds: welfare and public policies in an uncertain environment," Post-Print halshs-03418212, HAL.
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Keywords
reconciliation problem; nudge; boost; large worlds; welfare;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
- B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2020-04-06 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2020-04-06 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-ORE-2020-04-06 (Operations Research)
- NEP-UPT-2020-04-06 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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