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Professor Yew-Kwang Ng
  Organisation: Department of Economics
Title: Professor
Qualifications:

BCom Nanyang University, PhD University of Sydney
 

 

Kwang’s research interests include: ethical and welfare economic foundations of public policy; mesoeconomics; inframarginal analysis of specialisation; and Chinese economic reforms. He has published in a wide range of leading international journals, including American Economic Review (7 papers), Journal of Economic Literature (1 paper and 2 book reviews), Journal of Political Economy (3), Review of Economic Studies (2), Economic Journal (6), Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (5), Economica (9), Social Choice and Welfare (13), and Journal of Theoretical Biology (2). He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and recently received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia in 2007.
Office:

Clayton Campus
Room E853b, Building 11
Monash University Vic 3800
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2309
Fax: +61 3 9905 5476
E-mail:

Kwang.Ng@BusEco.monash.edu.au

 
Teaching Commitments:

ECC4830 Welfare Economics
ECC6650 Research Topics in Microeconomics

 
Research Interests:

Welfare economics, mesoeconomics, new classical economics, Chinese economic reform and public policy.

 
Selected Publications:

Ng, Y. K. (2003), ‘From preference to happiness: towards a more complete welfare economics', Social Choice and Welfare  21, 113-116.

Ng, Y. K. (2002), ‘The East-Asian happiness gap: speculating on causes and implications', Pacific Economic Review, 7, 51-63.

Ng, Y. K. (2000), ‘The Optimal Size of Public Spending and the Distortionary Cost of Taxation', National Tax Journal, 53, 253-272.

Ng,S.  and Ng, Y. K. (2000), ‘Enrichment of a Sector Benefits Others', Pacific Economic Review, 5, 3, 299-301.

Ng, Y. K. (1999), ‘Utility, Informed Preference or Happiness: Following Harsanyi's Argument to its Logical Conclusion', Social Choice and Welfare 16, 197-216.

Ng, Y. K. (1997), ‘A Case for Happiness, Cardinalism, and Interpersonal Comparability', Economic Journal, 107, 1848-1858.

Ng, Y. K. (1995), ‘Towards welfare biology:  Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering, Biology & Philosophy, 10, 255-285.

Ng, Y. K. (1984), ‘Quasi-Pareto Social Improvements', American Economic Review 74, 1033-1050.

Ng, Y. K. (1982), ‘A Micro-Macroeconomic Analysis Based on a Representative Firm', Economica, 49, 121-139.

Ng, Y. K. (1975), ‘Bentham or Bergson?  Finite Sensibility, Utility Functions and Social Welfare Functions', Review of Economic Studies, 42, 545-570.
Home Page:

http://www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au/~kwangng/