A Note on Welfare Propositions in Economics
A Note on Welfare Propositions in Economics
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关于经济学中的福利命题的注记
DOI：
10.2307/2967640
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发表时间：
1941
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通讯作者：
T. Scitovszky
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作者：
T. Scitovszky
现代经济学理论在解释经济系统运行的实证经济学和规定政策的福利经济学之间做出了鲜明的区分。在福利经济学领域，长期以来，人们认为不可能进行人际效用比较是对经济学家的严格限制，这使经济学的这一分支处于背景地位。然而，最近，在有人断言这些限制比迄今为止所设想的限制要少之后，人们重新对福利问题产生了兴趣。
Modern economic theory draws a sharp distinction between positive economics, which explains the working of the economic system, and welfare economics, which prescribes policy. In the domain of welfare economics the impossibility of interpersonal utility comparisons has for a long time been believed to impose strict limitations on the economist, which kept this branch of economic theory in the background. Recently, however, there has been a reawakening of interest in welfare problems, following assertions that these limitations are less restrictive than they were hitherto supposed to be.1The present note attempts to analyse the problem in detail.