Professor Yew-Kwang Ng

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.

Ng, Y-K. (2011). How did the universe come about? Axiomatic evolved-‘God' creationism, Shanghai: Fudan University Press.

Ng, Y-K. (2011), Common mistakes in economics: By the public, students, economists, and Nobel Laureates, Nova.

Ng, Y-K. (2011), Consumption tradeoff vs. catastrophes avoidance: Implications of some recent results in happiness studies on the economics of climate change, Climatic Change, 105(1), 109-127.

Ng, Y-K. (2009), Increasing returns and economic efficiency, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Ng, Y-K. (2008). Environmentally responsible happy nation index, Social Indicators Research, 85(3), 425-446.

Ng, Y-K. (2007). Eternal coase and external costs: A case for bilateral taxation and amenity rights, European Journal of Political Economy, 23(3), 641-659.

Ng, Y-K. (2004). Welfare economics: Towards a more complete analysis, London:  Palgrave/Macmillan.

Ng, Y-K. (1995). Towards welfare biology:  Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering, Biology & Philosophy, 10(3), 255-285.

Ng, Y-K. (1986). Mesoeconomics:  A micro-macro analysis. London:  Harvester.

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