TY - CHAP AU - Ivan Marsa-Maestre AU - Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona AU - Enrique de la Hoz AU - Mark Klein ED - Rosario Laratta Y1 - 2012-03-07 PY - 2012 T1 - Mediated Heuristic Approaches and Alternative Social Welfare Definitions for Complex Contract Negotiations Involving Highly Uncorrelated Utility Spaces N2 - "Social Welfare" offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics. Its interdisciplinary approach and comparative perspective promote examination of the most pressing social welfare issues of the day. The book aims to clarify some of the ambiguity around the term, discuss the pros and cons of privatization, present a range of social welfare paradoxes and innovations, and establish a clear set of economic frameworks with which to understand the conditions under which the change in social welfare can be obtained. BT - Social Welfare SP - Ch. 9 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/38681 DO - 10.5772/38681 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -