Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a recognised as the economic evaluation technique that accords most with the underlying principles of standard welfare economic theory. However, due to problems associated with the technique, economists evaluating resources allocation decisions in health care have most often used cost-effective analysis (CEA), in which health benefits are expressed in non-monetary...

the research discussed in this article consists of the process ended to propos a structure for social welfare and security which took more than 11 months in social security research institute. the main topics discussed are as follows: 1- the importance of social security and its relationship to economic growth, social justice, human generosity and national honor. 2- the basis and opportunities ...

This paper develops an open-economy growth model to analyze the growth and welfare effects of the European Union’s R&D policy. In the case of independent countries, each national government chooses the level of government-funded research non-cooperatively and fails to internalize the spillover effects across countries. Consequently, governmentfunded research is underprovided. In an economic uni...

a basic subject in economy is change in growth of population and it’s link to ‎other variables. if growth in population is consistent with other economic ‎circumstances, it would lead to economic growth, otherwise it would be ‎problematic. by using okun's law and population structures, this paper is ‎analysis the case for iran for 1974-2010. predictions are related to 2025 ‎horizon. the re...

Focusing on regional industrial transferring, this paper introduces the “economic risk”concept to characterize the uncertainty of welfare effets which China’s regional industrial transferring can take. After establishment an unified framework of analysising risk,which includes eonomic welfare risk and social welfare risk, this paper tries to assess the eonomic risk in China’s regional industria...

Regional economic activities require materials that can be extracted domestically or imported from other regions. Analysis of optimal patterns of combined economic development and materials use should be discussed in relation to trade and the environment. A model is presented that optimises long-term welfare of a 2-region economic system with trade in virgin and recycled materials as well as co...

In a recent issue of the European Journal of Public Health Barendregt and Bonneux 1 argue that 'the trouble with health economies', in particular economic evaluations of health care programmes, is that outcomes 'depend to a large extent on arbitrary decisions in study design', while in more theoretical discussions economists would 'display an unseemly rigidness'. Barendregt and Bonneux conclude...

In a series of articles and a book, Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (KS) articulated and defended the normative approach of standard law-and-economics. KS also argued that legal analysts should think in welfare-economic terms exclusively when advising on normative social issues of tremendous import. This thesis generated controversy within the legal academic community because it implied that nu...