Editor’S Introduction To: A Symposium On Second And Third Best Theory: Criticisms And Applications
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Keywords
Second best; third best; informational poverty; distortions; economic policy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- H0 - Public Economics - - General
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2016-12-18 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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