Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being: Volume 50

by Martin Heidenhain David and Timothy Smeeding

The result of a National Bureau of Economic Research Income and Wealth conference held in December 1983, this volume looks at the concept of "economic well-being" and the ways that analysts have tried to measure it. In addition to income, economists have begun to consider such factors as pensions, wealth, health, and environment when measuring the well-being of a particular group. They have also begun to measure how consumers respond, successfully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226137260
• ISBN13: 9780226137261
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"