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Compensation and Political Feasibility: Facilitating Welfare Improving Policies

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  • Richard E. Just
  • Gordon C. Rausser
  • David Zilberman

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There is a broad consensus among economists, policymakers, and informed citizens that free-market economics do not preclude many inefficiencies in resource allocation. There are many circumstances where policy interventions have the potential to achieve a "Pareto improvement" in the sense of making some people better off without making others worse off. The challenge to any particular market-oriented society is to design those mechanisms, organizations and institutions that identify the limitations of free-markets and result in those reforms that seek Pareto-improved outcomes.

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  • Richard E. Just & Gordon C. Rausser & David Zilberman, 1992. "Compensation and Political Feasibility: Facilitating Welfare Improving Policies," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 90-gatt19, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University.
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    1. Becker, Tilman & Labson, B. Stephan, 1991. "Optimal Policy Instruments and Political Preference Functions: An Application to the U.S. Wheat Sector," 1991 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Manhattan, Kansas 271212, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

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