Prof. Yew Kwang Ng

Professor (contract), Economics Department
Phone: (852) 26097134
Fax (if applicable): (852) 26035805
E-mail: YKNG@cuhk.edu.hk
Qualifications and Honours
- B. Com., Nanyang University, Singapore, 1966
- Ph. D. in Economics, University of Sydney, 1971
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1981
Principal Publications
- Why do people buy lottery tickets? Journal of Political Economy, Oct. 1965, pp.
- Benthan or Bergson? Finite sensibility, utility functions, and social welfare functions. Review of Economic Studies, Oct. 1975, pp. 545 570.
- On the existence of social welfare functions, social orderings and social decision functions. Economica, Feb., 1976, pp.59 66. (With Murray C. Kemp.)
- Towards a theory of third best. Public Finance, 1977, pp. 1 15.
- Welfare Economics, London:Macmillan, 1974 and 1983.
- Quasi Pareto social improvements. American Economic Review, Dec. 1984, pp. 1033 1050.
- Mesoeconomics:A Micro macro Analysis, Wheatsheaf, 1986.
- Social Welfare and Economic Policy, Wheatsheaf: 1990.
- Specialization and Economic Organization, "Contribution of Economic Analysis" Series, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1993.(With Xiaokai Yang.)
- Towards welfare biology. Biology and Philosophy, 1995, pp. 255 285.
- The enrichment of a sector (individual/region/country) benefits others: the third theorem in welfare economics? Pacific Economic Review, Nov. 1996.
- Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, London: Macmillan, 1997. (With Kenneth J. Arrow and Xiaokai Yang, eds.)
- Efficiency vs. Equality. London: Macmillan. forthcoming.
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