welfare-economics
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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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Welfare-economics
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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