Lecture 5: Welfare Analysis and Efficiency

Topics

  • Exchange economies and the Edgeworth box
  • First and second welfare theorems
  • Social welfare functions and the social planner’s problem
  • Adding production to the model of exchange economies

Textbook references: Chapter 16 from Pyndyck and Rubinfeld uploaded under “Additional Content.”

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