I beat the Aussies:Amartya Sen Oct 25, 2009
Amartya Sen speaks, people hang onto his words even if he isnt talking welfare economics. Thats his hobby horse. (India Times, India)
Climate change dominoes fall Oct 16, 2009
Arthur C. Pigou was an early 20th-century British economist, one of the fathers of welfare economics. We view the Pigou approach as just another form of central planning dressed up in free market terminology. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Winners of the Nobel Economics Prize Oct 12, 2009
1998: Amartya Sen, India, for contributions to welfare economics, which help explain the economic mechanisms underlying famines and poverty. 1997: Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes, United States, for developing a formula for the valuation of stock options. (ABC News -- Wire)
