PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1986:
A. Books
** Mesoeconomics:
A Micro-Macro Analysis.
1986, London: Harvester, pp.
xvi + 267.
* Social Welfare and Economic Policy. 1990, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf,
pp. xx + 243.
Welfare Economics (Chinese translation). 1991, Peking: Friendship Press, pp. 15 + 417.
** Specialization
and Economic Organization: A New
Classical Microeconomic Framework.
In “Contributions to Economic Analysis”, Vol. 215, 1993, Amsterdam: North Holland, pp. xvi + 507, with Xiaokai Yang (Monash).
The
Unparalleled Mystery. (A novel in Chinese incorporating
mysteries, kungfu, love stories, and economics). Beijing: Writers Press, 1994, pp. 1-230.
Economics and
Reforms: Collected Papers of
Professor Yew-Kwang Ng. (In Chinese).
Beijing: Reform Press,
August 1994, pp. 1-382.
Mesoeconomics
(Chinese translation).
Beijing: Chinese Social
Sciences Publishers, 1996.
Increasing
Returns and Economic Analysis, ed., London: Macmillan, 1998, with Kenneth Arrow and
Xiaokai Yang.
Economics
and Happiness, Taipei: Maw Chang, 1999
Specialization
and Economic Organization (Chinese translation), Beijing: Economic Science
Press, 1999.
Welfare Economics, (Translation in
non-simplified Chinese characters), Taipei: Maw Chang, 1999.
Economics and Happiness, (simplified characters
version), Dongbei Chaijing
University Press
China, 2000, pp. 1 + 359 (ISBN 7-81044-727-0). Received China Book Award for
2002.
** Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy:
With a case for Higher Public Spending, London: Macmillan, 2000, pp. vii +
189(ISBN 0-333-67165-1).
Editorship of (and
authorship of its Introduction, pp. 169-77) Pacific
Economic Review’s Volume in Honour of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, June 2001.
Economy
and Life, Sichuan People’s Publishers, 338 pages (ISBN 7-220-05794-6/F.617). 2002.
Efficiency,
Equality, and the Foundation of Public Policy: With a case for Higher Public
Spending, Chinese translation by Tang Xiang. Social Sciences Literature
Publishers, Beijing, 2003, 252 pages (ISBN 7-80149-902-6/F.320).
Ng, Yew-Kwang, Heling Shi and Guangzhen Sun, eds. (2003),
The Economics of e-Commerce and
Networking Decisions: Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal
Analysis, London:
Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003, 344 pages (ISBN 0-333-99932-0).
** Welfare
Economics: Towards
a Complete Analysis, London:
Macmillan, 2004, pp. xiii+355 (ISBN 0-333-97121-3).
http://us.macmillan.com/welfareeconomics
Economics and Society, Beijing: Economic Science
Press, 2005, pp.277 (ISBN 7-5058-5053-0/F.4307).
Social
Welfare and Economic Policy, Peking University
Press, 2005, pp.ii+276 (ISBN 7-301-07792-0/F.0924).
Welfare
Economics: Towards
a Complete Analysis, Chinese translaton,
published by Dongbei University of
Finance and Economics Press, 2005, pp.3+255, ISBN 7-81084-667-1.
Happiness and
Public Policy: Theory, Case Studies, and Implications,
Palgrave/Macmillan, London,
2006;
ed. with LS. Ho.
*
Self-Selected Papers of Yew-Kwang Ng, Shanxi
Economics Press, 2008. (Volume 2 of Contemporary Chinese
Economists Library.) ISBN: 978-7-80636-848-0.
* Y-K. Ng & D. Zhang (2008). Advanced Microeconomics, Shanghai Press, pp.v+280. (ISBN
978-7-5432-1418-7).
** Increasing
Returns and Economic Efficiency, Palgrave/Macmillan, U.K., 2009, pp.
xiii+200. ISBN 978-0-230-20209-2. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=287210
From Mesoeconomics
to Biology, 2011, Fudan University Press. Chinese
Translation by J.Y. Xue and G.F. Qiu. 361 pages;
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* Common Mistakes in Economics: By the Public, Students, Economists, and Nobel Laureates, Nova, 2011.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=23969
** How Did the Universe Come About? Axiomatic
Evolved-‘God’ Creationism, Fudan University
Press, August 2011. ISBN: 978-7-309-08189-3/P.007.
http://www.fudanpress.com/root/showdetail.asp?bookid=7233
Fallacies in Economics
from Nobel laureates to the Public, Fudan University Press, August 2011. ISBN:
978-7-309-08267-8/F.1722.
http://www.fudanpress.com/root/showdetail.asp?bookid=7232
Social Welfare & Economic Policy, Chinese Translation. Contract signed with Fudan University Press,
expected publication: 2012.
The Road towards Happiness, 2/3 of manuscript
completed.
B. Chapters/Sections
in Academic
Books
* “Arrow’s Independence Condition and the
Bergson-Samuelson Tradition”, in G. Feiwel, ed., Arrow and the Foundations of the Theory of
Economic Policy, 1987, London:
Macmillan, 223-242, with M. C. Kemp (N.S.W.).
“Efficiency and Equality in National Economic
Policies”, in Jia-pei Wu and Shou-yi
Zhang, eds., The Role of Economic Modelling in National Economic Management, 1987,
Beijing: Economic Science Publishers, 263-270.
“Growth or Welfare?”, in Y. C. Jao,
V. Mok, and L. S. Ho, eds., Economic Development in Chinese Societies: Models and Experiences, Hong Kong
University Press, 1989, 25-36.
“Sharemarket Crashes and
the Real Economy” in M, Kreinin, ed., Can Australia Adjust?, Public Sector Management
Institute, Monash University, 1989, 46-53.
“Efficiency, Equality, and Taxation Policies”, in
John Head & Richard Krever (eds.), Flattening the Tax Rate Scale: Alternative
Scenarios and Methodologies, 1990, Longman Professional, Melbourne,
337-352.
“Congestion Externalities, Immigration and Efficient
Pricing”, in Harry R. Clarke, et al, (eds.), Immigration, Population Growth and the Environment, 1990,
Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 27-29, with Harry R. Clarke
(La Trobe).
“The Benefits and Costs of Tourism: An Economic
Perspective”, in P. J. Stanton (ed.), The
Benefits and Costs of Tourism:
Proceedings of a National Tourism Research Conference, Institute of
Industrial Economics, The University of Newcastle, 1992, 171, with Harry Clarke
(La Trobe).
“The Effects of Chinese Economic Reforms and
Regional Economic Co-operation”, in Dilip K. Das
(ed.), The Emerging Growth Pole: The Asia-Pacific, Prentice-Hall,
1996, 531-551, with Siang Ng.
“The recent Chinese economic
performance and prospect”, in C.A. Tisdell and
J.C.H. Chai, (eds.), China’s Economic
Growth and Transition: Macroeconomic, Environmental and Social/Regional
Dimensions, Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1997, 229-256,
with Siang Ng.
* “Non-neutrality of money under non-perfect competition: why do
economists fail to see the possibility?” In Arrow, Ng, and Yang,
eds., Increasing Returns and Economic
Analysis, London: Macmillan, 1998, 232-252.
“Pursuit of relative conspicuous consumption in
monopolistic competition”, In Arrow, Ng, and Yang, eds., Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, London: Macmillan, 1998,
367-382.
“The economic relationship between Taiwan and Mainland
China: a perspective from the principle of mutual advantage”, in C.H. Chang
(ed.), East Asian Economic
Development: Its Past and Future -
Proceedings of the Third Conference in Memory of Professor Kuo-shu
Liang, pp.139-154; Reply, p.158; Department of Economics, National Taiwan
University, 1999; with Siang Ng.
“Efficiency, equity, and happiness: On the ethical
foundations of public policy”, in S.B. Dahiya (ed.) The Current State of Economic Science,
2: 867-881, Spellbound Publications Pvt. Ltd., Rohtak,
India. 1999.
“A case for happiness, cardinalism
and interpersonal comparability”, in H. Dixon, ed., Controversies in Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade and Policy, Blackwells, 2000, 278-288.
“Utilitarianism and
interpersonally comparable cardinal utility: some implications of just
perceivable increments of happiness”, in
Imperceptible Harms and Benefits, edited by Michael J. Almeida, ISBN
0-7923-6464-3, September 2000, pp.111-121.
“Foreword”, L.S. Ho, Principles of Public Policy Practice, London: Kluwer Academic,
2001, pp.ix-xiii.
“Arrow, Kenneth J. 1921-“, in J. Michie,
ed., Reader’s Guide to the Social
Sciences, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001, 75-6.
“Equity vs. efficiency”, in J. Michie,
ed., Reader’s Guide to the Social
Sciences, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001, 495-6.
“Public spending, optimal size”, in Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences,
Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001, 1357-9.
“Whither China? Implications of cultural differences
and some recent research”, In Jin Yong, ed., Living Environment in the New Economic Conditions and Chinese Culture, Hang
Zhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2002, pp. 80-85.
* “The welfare economics of
encouraging more births”, in Alan Woodland, ed. Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Honour
of Murray C. Kemp. Edward Elgar, 2002, pp.57-67.
“Economic growth and social
welfare: The need for a complete study of happiness”, in Easterlin,
Richard A., ed. Happiness in Economics. Elgar Reference Collection. International
Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 142. Cheltenham, U.K.
and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar; distributed by American International
Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt., 2002; 66-77.
Ng, Y.K. and Wills, I.
(2002). “Welfare economics and sustainable development”, in Knowledge for Sustainable Development - An
Insight into the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO Publishing / Eolss Publishers, Paris, France, Oxford, UK. Vol. 3, pp.
485-506.
“The Principle of Happiness – Preface”, In Huixiong Chen, The
Principle of Happiness, Beijing: Economic Science Publishers (ISBN
7-5058-3397-9/F-2741), 2003, pp.1-3.
“Entrepreneurship and globalization”, in The Tan Kah Kee Spirit of Today, Singapore: Global Publishing Co.
(ISBN 981-04-8446-1), 2003, pp. 99-118.
“Benefits and costs of
globalization”, Commemorative Proceedings
of the 7th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention, 2003,
pp.291-5.
“Preface” and “Introduction”, in Ng, Yew-Kwang, Heling Shi and Guangzhen Sun, eds. (2003),
The Economics of e-Commerce and
Networking Decisions: Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal
Analysis, London:
Palgrave/Macmillan, pp.x-xii, 1-7.
“Inframarginal Versus Marginal Analysis of Networking
Decisions and E-Commerce”, in Ng, Yew-Kwang, Heling Shi and Guangzhen Sun, eds. (2003),
The Economics of e-Commerce and
Networking Decisions: Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal
Analysis, London:
Palgrave/Macmillan, pp.11-23.
“Professor Xiaokai and his contributions”, in Yizi
Chen, ed. Where
Is China Heading: In Memory of Xiaokai Yang, New
York: Mirror Books, 2004, pp.200-12. (ISBN 1-932138-23-4.)
Yew-Kwang NG and Lok Sang HO, “Happiness
and public policy: An introduction”, in Happiness and
Public Policy: Theory, Case Studies, and Implications,
Palgrave/Macmillan, London,
2006.
“Public policy
implications of behavioural economics and happiness
studies”, in Happiness and Public Policy:
Theory, Case Studies, and Implications, Palgrave/Macmillan, London, 2006.
“Utility,
welfare, and happiness”, In Wang Dingding et al.
(2007). Economics:
Discussions by Three Economists, People’s Publishers, Shanghai.
“Consumer surplus”, in Mark Blaug
and Peter Lloyd (editors), Famous Figures
and Diagrams in Economics, Edward Elgar, U.K., 2010, pp.97-103.
“Harberger’s triangles”, in Mark Blaug
and Peter Lloyd (editors), Famous Figures
and Diagrams in Economics, Edward Elgar, U.K.,
2010, pp.104-9/
“External economies and their taxation”, in Mark Blaug and
Peter Lloyd (editors), Famous Figures and
Diagrams in Economics, Edward Elgar, U.K.. 2010, pp.121-7.
“Utility measurement”, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, eds, James E. Crimmins and
Douglas G. Long (London and New York: Continuum).
“Interpersonal utility”, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, eds, James E. Crimmins and
Douglas G. Long (London and New York: Continuum).
“Expected utility hypothesis”, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, eds, James E. Crimmins and
Douglas G. Long (London and New York: Continuum).
“Number-dampened utilitarianism”, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, eds, James E. Crimmins and
Douglas G. Long (London and New York: Continuum).
C. Papers
in Refereed Periodicals
* “On the Welfare Economics of Population Control”, Population and Development Review, June
1986, 12: 247-266.
“Social Criteria for Evaluating Population
Change: An Alternative to the Blackorby-Donaldson Criterion”, Journal of Public Economics, 1986, 29: 375-381.
“Beyond Pareto
Optimality: A Response to Christian
Seidl”, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1986,
46: 311-315.
“A Final
Rejoinder to Seidl”, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie,
1986, 46: 318-319.
* “Diamonds are
a Government’s Best Friend:
Burden-Free Taxes on Goods Valued for Their Values”, American Economic Review, March 1987,
77: 186-191.
* “Relative-Income
Effects and the Appropriate Level of Public Expenditure”, Oxford Economic Papers, June 1987, 293-300.
“Political Distortions and the Relevance of Second
and Third-Best Theories”, Public
Finance/Finances Publiques, 1987, No. 1, 137-145.
“The Role of Economists and Third-Best Policies”, Public Finance/Finances Publiques,
1987, No. 1, 152-155.
* “Equity,
Efficiency, and Financial Viability: Public-Utility Pricing with Special
Reference to Water Supply”, Australian
Economic Review, 3rd Quarter 1987, 21-35.
“Taxation Policies: Some Neglected Essential Issues”, Australian Tax Forum, 1987, 347-355.
“Is A Dollar A Dollar? A Response”, Oxford Economic Papers, 1988, 40, 584-586.
* “Economic
Efficiency versus Egalitarian Rights”, Kyklos, 1988, 215-237.
“Hurka’s Gamble and Methuselah’s Paradox”, Social Choice and Welfare, 1989, 6:
45-49.
“Interpersonal Level Comparability Implies
Comparability of Utility Differences: A Reply”, Theory and Decision, 1989, 26: 91-93.
* “Individual
Irrationality and Social Welfare”, Social
Choice and Welfare, 1989, 6, 87-101.
“Diamonds Are a Government’s Best Friend: Burden-Free Taxes on Goods Valued for
Their Values: Reply”, American Economic
Review, December 1989, 79: 1289-1290.
“Economic Efficiency versus Egalitarian Rights: A Response”, Kyklos, December 1989, 42(2):
261-264.
* “What Should
We Do About Future Generations? The
Impossibility of Parfit’s Theory X”, Economics and Philosophy, 1989, 5:
135-253.
“The Case for and Difficulties of Using ‘Demand
Areas’ for Measuring Changes in Well-Being”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1990, 13(1): 30-31.
“Welfarism
and Utilitarianism: A Rehabilitation”, Utilitas, November
1990, 2(2): 171-193.
“An Argument for Utilitarianism: A Defence”, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, December 1990, 68(4): 448-454, with Peter Singer (Monash).
“Should We Be Very Cautious or Extremely Cautious on
Measures that May Involve Our Destruction?
On the Finiteness of Our Expected Welfare”, Social Choice and Welfare, 1991, 8(1): 79-88.
* “Equivalent
Changes/Differences for Percentages and Probabilities”, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, June 1991, Volume XLIX, No. 2,
289-301.
* “Towards
Welfare Biology: Evolutionary Economics and Population Dynamics of Animal
Consciousness and Suffering”, Psycoloquy: Refereed
Electronic Journal of Peer Discussion, 2(7), 7 August 1991 (Part 1, 388
lines; Part 2, 373 lines).
“Towards Welfare Biology: Response to Commentaries”,
Psycoloquy: Refereed Electronic Journal of Peer
Discussion, 2(8), 25 September 1991 (342 lines).
“Should a ‘Natural Monopolist’ be Subject to
Competition? With Special Reference
to Cellular Mobile Telephone Services in Australia”, Australian Economic Review, 1991, 2nd Quarter, 32-44.
“The Economic Case for an Open Door Immigration
Policy”, Policy, 1991, Autumn, 47-49, with Harry Clarke (La Trobe).
* “The Paradox of the Adventurous Young and the Cautious Old: Natural
Selection versus Rational Calculation”, Journal
of Theoretical Biology, 1991, 153: 339-352.
“Do Individuals Optimize in Intertemporal
Consumption/Savings Decisions? A Liberal Method to Encourage
Savings”, Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization, 1992, 17: 101-114.
* “Utilitarianism
and Interpersonal Comparison: Some
Implications of a Materialist Solution to the World Knot”, Social Choice and Welfare, 1992, 9(1): 1-15.
* “The Older
the More Valuable: Divergence between Utility and Dollar Values of Life as One
Ages”, Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie), 1992, 55(1): 1-16.
* “Business
Confidence and Depression Prevention: A Mesoeconomic
Perspective”, American Economic Review, May 1992, 82(2): 365-371.
“Optimal Investment in Urban Drainage: A Framework
for Cost-Benefit Analysis”, Australian
Economic Review, 1992, 3rd Quarter, 19-28.
“Business Confidence and Depression Prevention: A
Micro-Macroeconomic Perspective”, Mathematical
Social Sciences, 1992, 25: 65-86.
* “Mixed Diamond Goods and Anomalies in Consumer
Theory: Upward-Sloping Compensated Demand Curves with Unchanged Diamondness”, Mathematical
Social Sciences, 1993, 25: 287-293.
* “Relative
Income, Aspiration, Environmental Quality, Individual and Political
Myopia: Why May the Rat-Race for
Material Growth be Welfare-Reducing?”, Mathematical Social Sciences, 1993, 26:
3-23, with Jianguo Wang (Monash).
“Immigration and Economic Welfare: Resource and
Environmental Aspects”, Economic Record,
September 1993, 69(206): 259-273, with Harry Clarke (La Trobe).
“Tourism, Economic Welfare and Efficient Pricing”, Annals of Tourism Research, 1993, 20(4):
613-632, with Harry Clarke (La Trobe). Reprinted in Tisdell,
Clem, ed. The Economics of Tourism. Volume 2.
Elgar Reference Collection. International
Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 121. Cheltenham, U.K.
and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar; distributed by American International
Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt., 2000; 324-43.
“The International Diffusion of the Fruits of
Technical Progress”, International
Economic Review, May 1993, xxxiv, No. 2, 381-385,with Murray Kemp (New
South Wales) and Koji Shimomura (Kobe University, Japan); reprinted in Murray
Kemp, The Gains from Trade and the Gains
from Aid: Essays in International
Trade Theory, 160-164, London: Routledge, 1995.
“Interest Rate Parity and
Divergence of Views on Exchange-Rate Changes: An Upward Sloping Supply Curve of
Funds even for a Small Country”, Australian
Economic Papers, December 1993, 32, 272-283, with Dietrich Fausten (Monash).
* “Theory of the Firm and Structure of Residual Rights”, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 1995, 26: 107-128, with Xiaokai
Yang (Monash).
* “Work Quality and Optimal Pay Structure: Piece vs. Hourly Rates in
Employee Remuneration”, Economic Letters,
1995, 47: 409-416, with He-ling Shi (Monash).
** “Towards
Welfare Biology: Evolutionary
Economics of Animal Consciousness and Suffering”, Biology & Philosophy, 1995, 10(3): 255-285. http://www.springerlink.com/content/uj81758r187l7777/
“Infinite Utility and Liedekerke’s
Impossibility”, Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, September 1995, 73(3): 408-412.
* “A
Case for Cardinal Utility and Non-arbitrary Choice of Commodity Units”, Social Choice and Welfare, 1995, 12:
255-266, with Jianguo Wang (New South Wales).
“Non-Traded Goods and the Welfare Gains from
Tourism: Comment”, International Review
of Economics and Finance, 1995, 4(3): 305-309, with Harry Clarke (La
Trobe).
“Population Growth and the
Benefits from Optimally Priced Externalities”, Australian Economic Papers, June 1995, 113-119, with Harry Clarke
(La Trobe).
* “Complex
Niches Favour Rational Species”, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 179(4): 303-311, April 1996.
* “Happiness
surveys: Some comparability issues and an exploratory survey based on just
perceivable increments”, Social
Indicators Research, 38(1): 1-29, May 1996.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/content/u4245h61864172t6/fulltext.pdf
** “The
enrichment of a sector (individual/region/country) benefits others: The third
welfare theorem?”, Pacific
Economic Review, Nov. 1996, 1(2): 93-115.
“Quantity precommitment
and Bertrand competition yield Cournot outcomes: A
case with product differentiation”, Australian
Economic Papers, June 1997, 1-22, with Xiangkang
Yin (La Trobe).
* “A case for happiness, cardinalism, and interpersonal comparison”, Economic Journal, 107(445): 1848-1858,
November 1997.
*
“Specialization, information, and growth: A sequential equilibrium
analysis”, Review of Development
Economics, 1(3): 257-274, 1997, with Xiaokai Yang
(Monash).
“The paradox of interpersonal cardinal utility: a proposed solution to a central problem
of public economic policy”, Public
Economics Review, 2(1): 1-32, November 1997.
“Quality adjusted life years (Qalys)
versus willingness to pay in matters of life and death”, International Journal of Social Economics, 25: 1178-1188, 1998.
* “Utility, informed preference or
happiness?” Social Choice and Welfare,
16(2): 197-216, 1999.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/content/5grvwb8yj1l58nfw/fulltext.pdf
“Why do the World Bank and IMF differ in dealing with
the East-Asian financial crisis? A perspective from mesoeconomics”,
Economic Research, January 1999,
18-21.
“Efficiency, equality and happiness: On the ethical
foundation of public policy”, International
Journal of Development Planning Literature, 14(1): 1-15, January-March,
1999.
“The enrichment of a sector benefits others: The
case of trade for specialization”, International
Journal of Development Planning Literature, 14(3): 403-410, July-September,
1999, with Siang Ng (Monash).
* “Intra-firm
branch competition for a monopolist”, Australian
Economic Papers, 38(3): 238-249, September 1999, with Wenli Cheng (NZ
Treasury).
“Can money buy happiness? Why should public spending
be increased?”, Taiwan
Economic Review, 27(3): 269-284, September 1999.
“On estimating the effects of events like the Asian
financial crisis: A mesoeconomic approach”, Taiwan Economic Review, 27 (4): 393-412,
December 1999.
“The effect of number and size of interest groups on
social rent dissipation”, Public Choice,
101(3/4): 251-265, December 1999, with Guangzhen Sun
(Monash).
Marjit,
Sugata, U. Broll, B. Moitra & Y-K. Ng, “Resolving the
credibility problem of an honest government: A case for foreign investment
subsidy”, Review of International
Economics. Vol. 7 (4). p
625-31. November 1999.
“Income disparities in the transition of China: reducing negative
effects by dispelling misconceptions”, Journal
of International Trade & Economic Development, 9(1): 55-68, 2000, with
Siang Ng (Monash)
.
“Quantity precommitment and Bertrand competition yield Cournot outcomes:
A case with product differentiation: Reply”, Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 2000, pp.
113-119, Blackwell Publishers (ISSN 0004-900X), with Yin, Xiangkang.
“Some problems of publishing papers in economics
periodicals”, Taiwan Economic Review,
28(1): 115-122, March 2000.
* “The optimal size of public spending and distortionary
costs of taxation”, National Tax Journal,
Vol. 52(2), June 2000, pp. 253-272.
“Why do economists overestimate the costs of public
spending?”, Newsletter
of Royal Economic Society (UK), July 2000.
“The enrichment
of a sector (individual/region/country) benefits others: a generalization”, Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 5, No. 3,
(2000), 299-302. with Siang Ng (Monash).
*
“The measurement of structural differences between economies: An
axiomatic characterization”, Economic
Theory, 16, (2000), 313-321. with Guangzheng Sun
(Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems)
* “From separability
to unweighted sum: A case for utilitarianism”, Theory and Decision, 2000, 49: 299-312
Siang Ng & Yew-Kwang Ng, “The importance of reliability in
realizing returns”, Advances in Financial
Planning and Forecasting, 2000, Vol. 9, 57-65.
Siang Ng & Yew-Kwang Ng, "Does the Enrichment of Another
Country Benefit India? Some Empirical Results", International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics, Vol.
9, No. 4, October-December 2001, pp. 479-492.
* Yew-Kwang Ng
& Jiangou Wang, “Attitude choice, economic
change, and welfare”, Journal of Economic
Behaviour and Organization, 2001, 45: 279-291.
* Siang Ng
& Yew-Kwang Ng “Welfare-reducing growth despite individual and government
optimization”, Social Choice and Welfare,
2001, 18: 497-506.
* “Is public
spending good for you?”, World Economics, invited but refereed contribution, April-June
2001, 2(2): 1-17.
“Fairness
and welfare”, Pacific Economic Review,
2001, 6(2): 169-177.
* “The East-Asian happiness gap”, Pacific
Economic Review, 2002, 7(1): 51-63.
“Economic policies in the light of happiness studies
with reference to Singapore”, Singapore
Economic Review, 2002, 47(2): 199-212.
* Yew-Kwang Ng & Siang Ng,
“Do the economies of specialization justify the work ethics? An
examination of Buchanan’s hypothesis”, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003, 50: 339-53.
** “From preference to happiness:
Towards a more complete welfare economics”, Social
Choice and Welfare, 2003, 20: 307-50.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/content/61m11jgtc3vl7lpd/fulltext.pdf
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Yew-Kwang Ng & Guangzhen
Sun, “Exclusion of self evaluations in peer ratings:
an impossibility and some proposals”, Social
Choice and Welfare, 2003, 20(3): 443-56.
·
Yew-Kwang Ng & Yeong-Nan
Yeh, “Comparative-statics without the differentiation
of the first-order conditions”, Economic
Letters, 2003, 78:161-6.
“Appropriate discounting of future utilities need
not be the dictatorship of the present”, Social
Choice and Welfare”, 2003, 21:113-6.
“Orthodox economics and
economists: Strengths and weaknesses”, Singapore Economic Review.
2003, 48(1):81-94.
*
Ng, Yew-Kwang and Po-Ting Liu, “Global environmental protection –
solving the international public-good problem by empowering the United Nations
through cooperation with WTO”, International
Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2003, 3(4): 409-17.
“Increasing
returns and economic organization: Introduction”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2004, 55(2):
129-136.
Ng, Yew-Kwang and Ying Wu,
"Multiple equilibria and interfirm
macro-externality: An analysis of sluggish real adjustments", Annals of Economics and Finance, 2004,
5: 61-77.
Li Guoqiang,
Yew-Kwang Ng, ¨The emergence of multinational enterprise: a general-equilibrium
analysis〃,
Journal of International Business and
Economics (United States), Vol II, Number 1, 2004, pp:45-60.
* “Sustainable development: A
problem of environmental disruption now instead of intertemporal
ethics”, Sustainable Development,
2004, 12: 150-60.
*
“Optimal environmental charges/taxes:
Easy to estimate and surplus-yielding”, Environmental and
Resource Economics, 2004, 28(4):395-408.
“Policy implications
of behavioural economics: With special reference to the optimal level of public
spending”, Australian Economic Review, Sept. 2005, 38(3):298-306.
“Intergenerational impartiality:
Replacing discounting by probability weighting”, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2005,
18(3), pp 237-57.
* Division of labour and transaction costs: An introduction", Division of Labour
& Transaction Costs, 2005, 1(1):1-13.
“Fundamental
Problems of Social Choice and the Paradox of Interpersonally Comparable
Cardinal Utility”, The
Journal of Peking University (Philosophy
and Social Sciences), No.5, 2005, pp.159-165.
Y-K. Ng & Dingsheng
Zhang, “Increasing returns and the Smith dilemma”, Singapore Economic Review, 2005, 50: 407-16.
“Some policy implications of behavioural
economics and happiness studies for Singapore: With reference to casinos”,
Invited Imminent Paper, Singapore
Economic Review, 2006, 51(1): 1-18.
“Yang’s
modern classical economics of specialization and its implications”, Economic Papers, June 2006, 25(2):101-5.
“Do the economies of specialization justify the work
ethics? A further
examination of Buchanan’s hypothesis”, Annals in Economics & Finance, 2006, 7(2), 385-403.
Matthew Clarke & Yew-Kwang Ng, Population
dynamics and animal welfare: Issues raised by the culling of kangaroos in Puckapunyal, Social
Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27: 407-22.
Y-K. Ng & G. Sun,
“The economics of endogenous specialization: Introduction”, Pacific Economic Review, 2007, 12(1):
63-7.
Guo-qiang Li &
Yew-Kwang Ng, “Indirect pricing theory of the firm: A general-equilibrium
analysis involving production technology and management service”, Pacific Economic Review, 2007, 12(1):
129-48.
Waka Cheung & Yew-Kwang Ng (2007), “Specialization and cooperation in research”, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 14(1): 27-42.
* Yew-Kwang Ng & Dingsheng Zhang (2007), “Average-cost pricing, increasing returns, and optimal output:
comparing home and market production”, Journal
of Economics, 90(2): 167-92.
* Yew-Kwang Ng & Siang Ng (2007), “Why should governments
encourage improvements in infrastructure?
Indirect network externality of transaction efficiency”, Public Finance and Management, 7(4):
340-362.
* “Eternal Coase and external
costs: A case for
bilateral taxation and amenity rights”, European Journal of Political
Economy, 2007, 23: 641-59. [Awarded Best Paper Prize at the Economics and
Environment Network National Workshop 2005, Australian National University.]
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V97-4NNWCB6-1/2/1f85df021797d9d310883289c084eb86
Waka Cheung & Yew-Kwang Ng (2007), “Duality in an
Industry with Fluctuating Demand”, Annals
of Economics and Finance, 8(2), 229–250.
** “Environmentally responsible
happy nation index”, Social Indicators
Research, 2008,
85:425–446.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/content/qu587565w3277471/fulltext.pdf
* “Happiness studies: Ways to improve
comparability and some public policy implications”, Economic Record, June 2008, 84:253-66.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00466.x/pdf
“Why is the military draft common? Conscription and increasing
returns”, Annals of Economics and
Finance, November 2008. 9(2):
373–384.
*
"Why Is A Financial Crisis
Important? The Significance of the Relaxation of the Assumption of Perfect
Competition", International
Journal of Business and Economics, August 2009, 8(2): 91-114. Lead paper. http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/pqdweb?index=3&did=1907181191&SrchMode=3&sid=1&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1298595535&clientId=16397&aid=1
Guangzhen Sun
& Yew-Kwang Ng, “The age-dependent value of time: A lifecycle analysis”, Journal of Economics, 2009, 97: 233–250.
Wang, Xuxiang, R.
Smyth & Y-K. Ng, “A new ordered family of
Lorenz curves with an application to measuring income inequality and poverty in
rural China”, China
Economic Review. 20
(2009) 218–235.
“A debate on “You are not a
fish, how could you possibly know the pleasures enjoyed by fish?” – A critique
of solipsism with evolutionary bioeconomics, Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University,
2010, 30(2): 70-3.
* Consumption tradeoff vs. catastrophes avoidance: Implications of some recent
results in happiness studies on the economics of climate change, Climatic Change, 2011, 105(1): 109-127, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9880-z.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/content/kqm7g44747071460/fulltext.pdf
** On the origin of our cosmos: A proposition of
axiomatic evolved cosmic consciousness, Journal of Cosmology, Vol 13, 3754-3764. http://journalofcosmology.com/QuantumCosmos113.html
ZuXiang Wang,
Yew-Kwang Ng and Russell Smyth, A general method for creating Lorenz curves,
accepted for publication, Review of
Income and Wealth.