Economic welfare

Japanese: 経済厚生 - けいざいこうせい(英語表記)economic welfare
Economic welfare
"Welfare" refers to human happiness or well-being, and economic welfare in particular means welfare from an economic perspective. According to AC Pigou, economic welfare is the sum of the utility of each individual in society. However, since the sum of utility cannot be directly dealt with, he considered national income as its equivalent. He concluded that (1) the higher the national income, (2) the larger the share of national income received by the poor, and (3) the smaller the fluctuation in national income, the greater the economic welfare.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
〈厚生〉とは人間の幸福もしくは福祉を指すのであるが,とくに経済厚生とは経済的観点からみた厚生を意味する。A.C.ピグーによれば,この経済厚生とは社会を構成する各個人の効用の総和である。しかし,効用の総和を直接に取り扱うことはできないから,彼はそれに対応するものとして国民所得を考えた。そして,(1)国民所得が大きいほど,(2)貧者の受けとる国民所得の分が大きいほど,(3)国民所得の変動が少ないほど,経済厚生は大きいと結論する。

出典 株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について 情報

<<:  Economic History

>>:  Economic planning

Recommend

Instant coffee - Instant coffee

It is an instant coffee made by dehydrating the c...

Stamping

… [Katori Tadahiko] [Western] In the West, engrav...

Shiratori Kurakichi

A scholar of Oriental history. Doctor of Literatu...

Mount Kunimi - Mount Kunimi

A mountain on the eastern edge of Kumamoto Prefec...

Camelopardalis (Giraffe)

Its abbreviation is Cam. It is a circumpolar const...

al-Bakrī, Abū Ubayd

[Raw] 1040 [Died] 1094 A Spanish Muslim geographer...

Twelve points of opinion

This is a sealed opinion submitted to Emperor Daig...

Fast - Business

A Buddhist sculptor from the early Kamakura period...

Girl Guides

…the movement was founded in the UK in 1910 by Ba...

Bluto

...He soon became the protagonist of a comic stri...

Shikinzan Tomb

This keyhole-shaped tumulus is located on the gro...

Umeda

The area is located in the central part of Osaka ...

Reform Opera - Kaikaku Opera

...He himself wrote eight opera comiques between ...

Painted candles - E-ro-soku

…In contrast, crude candles were made by twisting...

Didemnum misakiense

A protochordate of the Ascidian family, family Asc...