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Money Metric Welfare and "Economic Efficiency"

…to money metric welfare. If, as mentioned above, state A gives maximimum money metric welfare (for initial state A) then A maximizes a weighted sum of utility functions. The weights…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

Welfare Reform "Not a Disaster" ?

welfare reform was a good idea. What happened with welfare reform and without an extraordinary boom ? The number of Americans in “severe poverty” grew 26% from 2000 to 2005,…

Welfare Reform Kills ?

…Z, Wilde ET. (2013) “Welfare programs that target workforce participation may negatively affect mortality.” Abstract During the 1990s reforms to the US welfare system introduced new time limits on people’s…

On the Extent of “Corporate-Welfare Subsidies”

…figure for “farm and corporate-welfare subsidies”? Let’s turn to Wikipedia which notes that corporate welfare can be broadly defined as: a government’s bestowal of grants and/or tax breaks Yes –…