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Feldman, Allan Maurice was born on January 9, 1943 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Rachel (Eisen) Feldman.
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This book covers the main topics of welfare economics ― general equilibrium models of exchange and production, Pareto optimality, un certainty, externalities and public goods ― and some of the major topics of social choice theory ― compensation criteria, fairness, voting. Arrow's Theorem, and the theory of implementation. The underlying question is this: "Is a particular economic or voting mechanism good or bad for society?" Welfare economics is mainly about whether the market mechanism is good or bad; social choice is largely about whether voting mechanisms, or other more abstract mechanisms, can improve upon the results of the market. This second edition updates the material of the first, written by Allan Feldman. It incorporates new sections to existing first-edition chapters, and it includes several new ones. Chapters 4, 6, 11, 15 and 16 are new, added in this edition. The first edition of the book grew out of an undergraduate welfare economics course at Brown University. The book is intended for the undergraduate student who has some prior familiarity with microeconomics. However, the book is also useful for graduate students and professionals, economists and non-economists, who want an overview of welfare and social choice results unburdened by detail and mathematical complexity. Welfare economics and social choice both probably suffer from ex cessively technical treatments in professional journals and monographs.
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Feldman, Allan Maurice was born on January 9, 1943 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Rachel (Eisen) Feldman.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, University Chicago, 1965. Master of Arts in Anthropology, University Chicago, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 1972.
Assistant Professor, Brown University, 1971-1977. Visiting Association Professor, University Virginia, 1978. Association Professor of Economics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, since 1978.
Editor Cons, American Economic Review,1973-1981.
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My early work was on general equilibrium theory and welfare economics. Thus I showed that in an exchange economy model, bilateral trade could suffice to carry the economy to a Pareto optimal state, and in a game theoretic model, a random recontracting process could in general be used to carry the system to the core. As I studied the fundamental theorems of welfare economics, however, I started to see the importance of judging among Pareto optimal or noncomparable states of the economy, and so my interest gradually turned to Arrow’s theorem, fairness, and various issues of manipulability of social decision functions.
Treasurer Common Sense, Providence, 1983-1984. Member National Association Forensic Economists, American Law and Economic Association, Phi Beta Kappa (treasurer Rhode Island Alpha chapter 1999-2006).
Married Barbara Ellen Moses, June 19, 1965. Children: Paula, Elizabeth, Jacob.