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Citations
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2189
National Ranking
55

Overview

Yew-Kwang Ng is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular emphasis on Economics and Econometrics as well as interdisciplinary approaches involving Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research spans a range of topics, including:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

Yew-Kwang Ng has published scholarly articles in various academic journals and venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?" (2021) published in Utilitas
  • "No need for certainty in animal sentience" (2022) published in Animal Sentience
  • "Could artificial intelligence have consciousness? Some perspectives from neurology and parapsychology" (2021) published in AI & Society
  • "Why Does the US Face Greater Disadvantages in the Trade War with China?" (2020) published in China & World Economy
  • "How antidumping measures affect US imports from China: A mesoeconomic perspective of the excess price changes" (2023) published in Pacific Economic Review

Their frequent collaborators include Stéphane Zuber, Nikhil Venkatesh, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Christian Tarsney, and H. Orri Stefánsson.

Recurring publication venues for their work include:

  • Open Access Government
  • Pacific Economic Review
  • Utilitas
  • Animal Sentience
  • AI & Society

Best Publications

  • A Case for Happiness, Cardinalism, and Interpersonal Comparability

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Specialization and Economic Organization: A New Classical Microeconomic Framework

    Xiaokai Yang;Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Towards welfare biology: evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering

    Yew Kwang Ng

  • From preference to happiness: Towards a more complete welfare economics

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Happiness surveys: some comparability issues and an exploratory survey based on just perceivable increments

    Yew Kwang Ng

  • What should we do about future generations?: Impossibility of Parfit's theory X

    Yew Kwang ng

  • Theory of the firm and structure of residual rights

    Xiaokai Yang;Yew Kwang Ng

  • Optimal Pricing with a Budget Constraint—The Case of the Two-part Tariff

    Yew Kwang Ng;Mendel Weisser

  • Bentham or Bergson? Finite Sensibility, Utility Functions and Social Welfare Functions

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • On the existence of social welfare functions, social orderings and social decision functions

    Murray C. Kemp;Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Diamonds Are a Government's Best Friend: Burden-Free Taxes on Goods Valued for Their Values: Reply

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Quasi-Pareto social improvements

    Yew Kwang Ng

  • Welfare Economics: Introduction and Development of Basic Concepts

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Relative income, aspiration, environmental quality, individual and political myopia: Why may the rat-race for material growth be welfare-reducing?

    Yew Kwang Ng;Jianguo Wang

  • Welfare Economics: Towards a More Complete Analysis

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Relative-Income Effects and the Appropriate Level of Public Expenditure

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  • Mesoeconomics: A Micro-Macro Analysis

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Tourism, economic welfare and efficient pricing

    Harry R. Clarke;Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Tourism, economic welfare and efficient pricing.

    Harry R. Clarke;Yew Kwang Ng

  • SOCIAL CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING POPULATION CHANGE: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE BLACKORBY-DONALDSON CRITERION

    Yew Kwang Ng

  • Utility, informed preference, or happiness: Following Harsanyi's argument to its logical conclusion

    Yew Kwang Ng

  • Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: Towards an Internationally Acceptable National Success Indicator.

    Yew-Kwang Ng

  • Welfarism and utilitarianism: a rehabilitation

    Yew kwang Ng

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray C. Kemp
Murray C. Kemp University of New South Wales
Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore
Russell Smyth
Russell Smyth Monash University
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Geir B. Asheim
Geir B. Asheim University of Oslo
Sugata Marjit
Sugata Marjit Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

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