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Population and immigration: Some fallacies and neglected benefits
In this eBook, I will discuss some very common fallacies regarding population and immigration, together with some important neglected points. I will try to do so in a way easy to understand and give some references for more rigorous discussions.
Welfare economics: Reducing animal suffering at negligible costs
Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor from the Department of Economics, at Monash University in Australia, argues the case for reducing animal suffering at negligible costs to human beings.
Welfare economics: Promoting equality through general policies
Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, Monash University, continues a discussion about welfare economics, focusing on efficiency supremacy in specific areas, arguing that equality should be promoted through general policies.
An economic analysis of social welfare
Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, Monash University, evaluates social welfare from an economic angle.
Using lotteries instead of auctioning is both inefficient and inequality-creating
Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University, compares the use of the lottery and auctioning to allocate scarce goods.
The anti-market sentiment: A critique
The anti-market sentiment has a long history and can be traced at least to Aristotle (384-322 B.C.); see ‘an anticommercial theme originating in Aristotle’ (McCloskey 2006, p.2).
A case for higher spending on public goods
Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University in Australia, argues in favor of increased spending on public goods.
The Welfare Foundation of public policies and its implications
The position here is that public policies should, ultimately speaking, be for the promotion of social welfare. What is social welfare? This is the welfare of people in the relevant society (discussing the issue of animal welfare later).
Monash University Department of Economics continues to drive global impact
Monash University is a Group of Eight Australian (Go8) university, making up Australia's leading research-intensive universities – with excellence in the Department of Economics.
