----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- The Bator and Mishan articles, as well as Graaff's book, are perhaps the best suggestions. Let me add the following references: For the older (pre-1930s) material: G. Myrdal (1929, 1953) The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Hla Myint (1948) Theories of Welfare Economics. London: which deal quite well with the early history of the subject. For surveys concentrating on the more recent materials, there is the very accessible elementary undergraduate text: Robin Boadway and Neil Bruce (1984) Welfare Economics. Blackwell. and the more advanced surveys collected in: K.J. Arrow and M.D. Intriligator (1983) Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Volume 3. Amsterdam: North-Holland. and J.J. Laffont (1988) Fundamentals of Public Economics. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Goncalo Fonseca ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]