MICRO-I

Unit - IV

Factor Pricing and Welfare Economics: marginal productivity theory of distribution; Ricardian and modern theories of rent; Subsistence and wage fund theories of wages; liquidity preference theory of interest; Knight’s theory of profit. Concepts of welfare; value judgements; problems in measuring welfare; Classical welfare economics; Pareto optimality; social welfare function.



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