経済効率の妥当性 Truth or Economics : On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency

Markovits, Richard S.

Yale Univ Pr（2008/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 507 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780300114591
• DDC分類 338.9

基本説明

A YBP Library Services Bestselling Professional Title, January-March 2008. Is economic efficiency a sound basis upon which to make public policy or legal decisions? Markovits considers the moral and legal relevance of economic efficiency.

Full Description

Is economic efficiency a sound basis upon which to make public policy or legal decisions? In this sophisticated analysis, Richard S. Markovits considers the way in which scholars and public decision-makers define, predict, and assess the moral and legal relevance of economic efficiency.The author begins by identifying imperfections in the traditional definition of economic efficiency. He then develops and illustrates an appropriate response to Second-Best Theory and investigates the moral and legal relevance of economic-efficiency analyses. Not only do virtually all economic, legal, and public policy thinkers misdefine economic efficiency, the author concludes, they also ignore or respond inadequately to Second-Best Theory when analyzing the economic efficiency of public choices and misassess the relevance of economic-efficiency conclusions both for moral evaluations and for the answer to legal-rights questions that is correct as a matter of law.