following the failure of economic development and growth policies and dissatisfactions resulting from applying these policies, related discussions to life satisfaction was proposed among various experts. in their opinion, different factors can be effectual on life satisfaction. one of the most important factors is social welfare. this study is a social survey and it has used questionnaire for c...

The problem of determining the optimal level of output for goods and services produced by government and determining the best means of rationing these among people is an important one. The level of aggregate economic welfare depends on both the output level chosen and the mechanism used to distribute this output. Public decisions make implicit judgments on both output and rationing devices with...

This paper focuses on a neglected aspect of the treatment of the income unit in the construction of size distributions of income. If the size distribution is to be an indicator of the distribution of economic welfare,and if the economic welfare of each individual in society is to count equally, then conventional distribuFions are inconsistent with individualistic social welfare functions. We es...

My main focus, as requested by the editors, is the changing governance of welfare. But changes in this regard are inseparable from broader changes in the welfare regimes that emerged in advanced western capitalist states in the postwar Atlantic Fordist boom. Thus I will also discuss the social and economic functions that current welfare regimes are expected to perform and the scales on which th...

This paper studies the interrelation between anthropogenic global warming and economic growth. It is assumed that deviations from the pre-industrial average global surface temperature negatively affect aggregate output and utility. The government levies a tax on output and a tax on greenhouse gases. Assuming a basic endogenous growth model the effects of varying the tax rates are analyzed as co...

Arthur Pigou’s welfare treatises are exercises in practical ethics. The were founded on the ethical concepts of good and economic with economist’s national dividend providing instrument for solving problems. This paper follows this triad from its origins earliest writings ethics policy, into treatises, onto his last writings—a period around fifty years.