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2002-03 Discreteness And The Welfare Cost Of Labour Supply Tax Distortions, Keshab Bhattarai, John Whalley Jan 2002

2002-03 Discreteness And The Welfare Cost Of Labour Supply Tax Distortions, Keshab Bhattarai, John Whalley

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Plan To Pay Creditors And Protect Family Welfare, Barbara R. Rowe Jan 2002

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 Jan 2002

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, …