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welfare economics

noun

a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.

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welfare economics

—n
	the aspects of economic theory concerned with the welfare of society and priorities to be observed in the allocation of resources

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