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2002-03 Discreteness And The Welfare Cost Of Labour Supply Tax Distortions, Keshab Bhattarai, John Whalley
2002-03 Discreteness And The Welfare Cost Of Labour Supply Tax Distortions, Keshab Bhattarai, John Whalley
Department of Economics Research Reports
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Plan To Pay Creditors And Protect Family Welfare, Barbara R. Rowe
Plan To Pay Creditors And Protect Family Welfare, Barbara R. Rowe
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Can Law And Economics Be Both Practical And Principled?, David A. Hoffman, Michael P. O'Shea
Can Law And Economics Be Both Practical And Principled?, David A. Hoffman, Michael P. O'Shea
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This article describes important recent developments in normative law and economics, and the difficulties they create for the project of efficiency-based legal reform. After long proceeding without a well articulated moral justification for using economic decision procedures to choose legal rules, scholars have lately begun to devote serious attention to developing a philosophically attractive definition of well-being. At the same time, the empirical side of law and economics is also being enriched with an improved understanding of the complexities of individuals' decision-making behavior. That is where the problems begin. Scholars may have better, more plausible conceptions of well-being in hand, …