TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clarke,Matthew
AU  - Islam,Sardar M.N.
TI  - Economic growth and social welfare: operationalising normative social choice theory 
T2  - Contributions to economic analysis,
AV  - HD75 .C567 2004
U1  - 306.3 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Social choice
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Business & Economics
KW  - Economics
KW  - Microeconomics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Social welfare & social services
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-281) and index; Introduction / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Economic growth and social welfare in Thailand / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Economic growth and social welfare : a hierarchical approach / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Contemporary development issues and economic growth / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Welfare analysis of economic growth on social welfare / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Conclusions and summary / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Economic growth and social welfare : an aggregate approach / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Empirical application of the aggregate approach / Sardar M.N. Islam
N2  - This book studies the relationships between economic growth and social welfare and the policy implications of these relationships for development. Understanding the relationships between economic growth and social welfare is an enduring issue within contemporary development economics and welfare economics. These relationships are analysed in this book by operationalising normative social choice theory. Normative social choice theory is an appropriate approach as it explicitly incorporates society's preferences, values and choices in determining how social welfare should be defined and measured. Two approaches, aggregate and hierarchical, are developed and empirically applied to Thailand for a twenty-five year period 1975-1999. This book concludes that in terms of social welfare, economic growth cannot always be assumed desirable. What is needed is social welfare enhancing economic growth. A review of the policy implications of this finding is also undertaken
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0573-8555(2004)262
ER  -