Research Catalog

Title

Economic theory and public decisions : selected essays of Robert Dorfman / Robert Dorfman.

Author

Dorfman, Robert.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US : Edward Elgar, 1997.

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Details

Description

xxxiii, 464 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• This book reflects Robert Dorfman's important contributions to the analysis of economic theory and public decision making during the last forty years.
• The central concern of much of Professor Dorfman's career has been social decisions: how to reach them and how to judge them. This has meant that he has worked in a wide range of areas within economics including: statistics, economic theory, natural resource and environmental economics, social decisions and the history of economic thought. In more recent papers he has challenged the traditional concepts relating to the maximization of social welfare.

Series Statement

Economists of the 20th century series

Uniform Title

Economists of the twentieth century.

Subjects

• Economic policy > Decision making
• Economics
• Economics, Mathematical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations -- 2. Mathematical, or "Linear," Programming: A Nonmathematical Exposition -- 3. A Catechism: Mathematics in Social Science -- 4. The Nature and Significance of Input-Output -- 5. Operations Research -- 6. An Economic Interpretation of Optimal Control Theory -- 7. Optimal Advertising and Optimal Quality / Robert Dorfman and Peter O. Steiner -- 8. A Graphical Exposition of Bohm-Bawerk's Interest Theory -- 9. General Equilibrium with Public Goods -- 10. A Formula for the Gini Coefficient -- 11. The Meaning of Internal Rates of Return -- 12. Transition Costs of Changing Regulations -- 13. On Optimal Congestion -- 14. An Economist's View of Natural Resource and Environmental Problems -- 15. Food for a Developing World (with W. P. Falcon) / Robert Dorfman and W. P. Falcon -- 16. Protecting the Global Environment: An Immodest Proposal -- 17. The Functions of the City --
• 18. Social Decisions without Social Preferences -- 19. The Technical Basis for Decision Making -- 20. Towards a Social Index of Environmental Quality -- 21. Incidence of the Benefits and Costs of Environmental Programs -- 22. Forty Years of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 23. The Lessons of Pesticide Regulation -- 24. Ethics, Economics, and the Environment -- 25. Why Benefit-Cost Analysis is Widely Disregarded and What To Do About It -- 26. Wassily Leontief's Contribution to Economics -- 27. A Nobel Quest for the Invisible Hand -- 28. The Discovery of Linear Programming -- 29. Comment: P. A. Samuelson, "Thunen at Two Hundred" -- 30. Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo -- 31. Austrian and American Capital Theories: A Contrast of Cultures.

ISBN

185898212X

LCCN

96035153

OCLC

• 35360572
• ocm35360572

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries