书目名称 | Policy Analysis and Economics | 副标题 | Developments, Tensio | 编辑 | David L. Weimer | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Recent Economic Thought | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework for valuing the impacts of policies in terms of efficiency and simple notions of equity. With the expansion of economic theory into ever wider fields of human behavior, it is no wonder that economists have prominence as teachers and practitioners of policy analysis. Indeed, many economists see policy analysis as essentially applied economics. Though other social scientists might object to this somewhat parochial view, economics and policy analysis share much in commom in terms of develop ment and prospects. The purpose of this volume is to trace these interrela tionships and explore the tensions that they create. Tensions arise for several reasons. Changes in the discipline of econ omics affect the findings, methods, and personnel offered to policy analy sis. For example, on the one hand, the "new institutional economics" appears to be extending the influence of economists to questi | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | Institution; Policy; decision making; development; distribution; economics; efficiency; institutional econo | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3866-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-5720-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-3866-6Series ISSN 0924-199X | issn_series | 0924-199X | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991 |
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