1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual background and welfare terminology -- 3. Other approaches to welfare economics -- 4. A positive basis : the learning theory of consumption -- 5. An evolutionary theory of welfare -- 6. Evolutionary welfare economics -- 7. Concluding remarks.

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The theoretical consistency and practical applicability of traditional welfare economics has long been subject to controversy. More recently the challenge has been added from evolutionary approaches that the individual preferences on which the welfare calculus is based are themselves subject to...