Some Welfare Economics of Working Time

Nber Working Paper Series Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding

We thank Scott Stern, Josh Lerner, and Erin Scott for thoughtful input on earlier drafts. Participants at the NBER National Press Club workshop in April 2013 offered insightful feedback. We draw inspiration from Tirole and Lerner (2002) for our title and approach to presenting the subject matter. We gratefully acknowledge funding support on our series of crowdfunding research projects from the ...

theoretical models in welfare economics

the present essay intend to intoduce some vital established economic models of social welfare as welfare criticize and evaluate their capability and their explicative nature . the cotent is totally theoretical and therefore the evaluation will be done through hypothetical and abstract values and criteria . particularly the essay tries to go beyond exact socio - economic welfare models and to fi...

Working Paper Department of Economics Foreign Ownership and the Theory of Trade: and Welfare*

Altruism, evolution, and welfare economics

Henrich clearly presents the convincing evidence that the evolution of prosocial preferences—altruism and altruistic punishment—is both theoretically possible and empirically present in human populations. Henrich convinces us using only the most restrictive arguments. If one goes beyond the assumptions of one-gene, one-trait, or recognizes the existence of “social cognition” (Caporael, 1997), t...

Economics and Farm Animal Welfare