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Beyond Marginal Analysis: Perspectives from an Inframarginal Analysis of the Division of Labour

In: Welfare Economics

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  • Yew-Kwang Ng

    (Monash University)

Abstract

Traditional welfare economics is incomplete in at least two important respects. First, it is based on an orthodox economic analysis that is largely neoclassical in nature. Neoclassical economics concentrates on resource allocation and largely ignores the important classical economic problems associated with divisions of labour to take advantage of economies of specialisation and the associated evolution of economic organisations. This deficiency is discussed in the present chapter. While attention has recently been paid to the classical problems of specialisation (see for example Yang and Ng, 1993), the related welfare economic issues raised by this new classical framework are only just beginning to be addressed and there is considerable scope for further research.

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  • Yew-Kwang Ng, 2004. "Beyond Marginal Analysis: Perspectives from an Inframarginal Analysis of the Division of Labour," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Welfare Economics, chapter 10, pages 230-256, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4406-1_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403944061_10
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