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- OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
| Dates: | July 06-08, 2011 |
| Description: | New Directions in Welfare |
| Location: | Paris, OECD, France |
| Subject: | We welcome contributions from theorists and empiricists alike who are interested in broadening our understanding of the economics of welfare which continues to flourish. Following work by Sen, Stiglitz and others that has helped to bring about the Sarkozy Report, the EUs Beyond GDP memorandum and a number of other initiatives, the congress particularly welcomes papers relating to the theoretical or empirical economics of Health, Development, Social Policy, Environment, Labour, Education, Childhood, Aging, Migration, Culture, Happiness, Equality and Equity, Behavioural Economics and Life course issues any area of economics, in fact, closely interested in understanding the economics of human welfare. Previously nearly a third of papers came from the following areas where there will again be strands: Social Choice, Utility Theory, Experimental Economics and Philosophical Foundations of Economic Theory. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] |
| JEL Code: | O |
| URL: | http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/welfareconomicstheory/ |