Ng, Yew-Kwang
Increasing Returns and Economic Efficiency
1. Introduction
Yew-Kwang Ng
2. Devastating Implications of Increasing Returns on Some Traditional Conclusions
Yew-Kwang Ng
3. Equity and Efficiency versus Freedom and Fairness: An Inherent Conflict
Yew-Kwang Ng
4. Existence of Average-Cost Pricing Equilibria with Increasing Returns
Yew-Kwang Ng
5. The Efficiency of Encouraging Goods with High Degrees of Increasing Returns
Yew-Kwang Ng
6. Division of Labour: Increasing Returns at the Economy Level
Yew-Kwang Ng
7. The Smith Dilemma and Its Resolution
Yew-Kwang Ng
8. Why Should Governments Encourage Improvements on Infrastructure? Indirect Network Externality of Transaction Efficiency
Yew-Kwang Ng
9. Average-Cost Pricing, Increasing Returns, and Optimal Output: Comparing Home and Market Production
Yew-Kwang Ng
10. Do the Economies of Specialization Justify the Work Ethics? An Examination of Buchanan’s Hypothesis
Yew-Kwang Ng
11. Specialization, Trade, and Growth
Siang Ng
12. Conceptual and Policy Implications: Concluding Discussion
Yew-Kwang Ng
Keywords: Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Public Finance
- Author(s)
- Ng, Yew-Kwang
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 213 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230236813
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-30023-5