--%>
Assignment Help - homework help

Better off and worse off condition in normative economics

When an economic change creates one person better off and a thousand persons worse off, this is: (w) good for society. (x) bad for society. (y) neither good nor bad for society. (z) not possible to assess without a value judgment.

Can anybody suggest me the proper explanation for given problem regarding better off and worse off condition in normative economics generally?

   Related Questions in Public Economics

  • Q : Comparative Systems- Central planning

    Can someone help me in finding out the right answer from the following options. The command economy is mainly based on: (i) Laissez faire govt. policies and private property rights. (ii) ‘kolkhoz’ decision making. (iii) Well tuning production to match the

    		•
  • Q : Society resources-output combinations

    The country’s production-possibilities curve exhibits: (i) Which combination of goods are best for the society. (ii) Output combinations which fully employ society's resources. (iii) Demands for various resources. (iv) Monetary quantities and pr

    		•
  • Q : Building blocks for a capitalist system

    Building blocks for a capitalist system comprise: (i) supplies and demands. (ii) private property rights. (iii) laissez-faire policies. (iv) market-determined prices and outputs. (v) All of the above.I need a good answer on the topic of Economic problems

  • Q : Desires of people when less of a good

    While less of a good is freely obtainable than people desire, the good is: (1) in short supply. (2) a free good. (3) a luxury good. (4) scarce. (5) a requirement. Hello guys I want your advice. Please recommend som

    		•
  • Q : How to recognize economics as a field

    recognize economics as a field of economics

    		•
  • Q : When is an economic theory a positive

    Economic theory is a positive science only to the extent which this yields: (i) scientifically testable predictions. (ii) moral answers to ethical disputes. (iii) absolutely exact descriptions of how the world works. (iv) optimistic, quite than pessim

    		•
  • Q : Mixed economy of a market system

    Whenever compared to a mixed economy which relies primarily on the market system, the society which relies relatively greatly on brute force, queuing, and arbitrary selection tends to experience: (1) Powerful reducing returns. (2) Opportunity costs to drop. (3) Fast t

    		•
  • Q : Assertion of a normative statement

    How can I solve my economics problems? Please suggest me the right answer for an illustration of a normative statement, would be the assertion which: (w) bald men are intelligent. (x) balding advances along with age. (y) bald men must wear toupees. (z) strength and hi

    		•
  • Q : Human choices and consequences in

    Economics as like a Science is most relates with: (a) human consequences and their choices. (b) mathematical formulas to compute profit. (c) how government agencies price services and goods. (d) wealth accumulated through private ente

    		•
  • Q : Example of Normative Economics with no

    A statement which needs no value judgments would be which an optimal distribution of goods is: (w) invariably best for society. (x) better for society than any non-optimal distribution of goods. (y) better for society only when this conforms to the will of the majorit

    		•