...Roger E. Backhouse In the first three decades of the twentieth century, a group of British economists, described by Walton Hamilton as the “English welfare school,” sought to bring religious convictions into economics through providing the ethical judgments underlying welfare economics. This...

...David Collard No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880–1945 . Edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xi ; 244 pp. $85.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews The Cost...

... Welfare Economics of Medical Care. American Economic Review 53 : 941 -73. Arrow, K. J., and G. Debreu. 1954 . Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy. Econometrica 22 : 265 -90. Arrow, K. J., and F. H. Hahn. 1971 . General Competitive Analysis . San Francisco: Holden-Day...

... premises: British welfare—not to be confused with material wealth—depended on economic productivity, the prosperity of the working class, and an economic policy that maintained a stable demand for labor, ensuring predictable sources of employment and income. A. C. Pigou, who entered the controversy as a...

...Norikazu Takami This essay identifies A. C. Pigou’s welfare economics as an attempt to bring order to the political debate in the context of the emergence of a more inclusive democracy in the United Kingdom associated in particular with the success of the Labour Party in the 1906 general election...

... of Preference. Social Choice and Welfare 10 : 57 -68. Davis, John B. 1995 . Personal Identity and Standard Economic Theory. Journal of Economic Methodology 2.1 : 35 -52. Eisenberg, Nancy, and Janet Strayer. 1987 . Critical Issues in the Study of Empathy. In Empathy and Its Development...

... more readily to develop economic theory, the book does provide a glimpse into the logical structure and intellectual aims of economic theory, while serving as a persua- sive brief for its applicability to history. Southeastern Massachusetts University GERARDM. KOOT Welfare...

... Economy: Another View. Economic Inquiry 16 ( December ): 587 -91. Frazer , D. 1983 . The Evolution of the British Welfare State . London: Macmillan. Hollander , S. 1985 . The Economics of John Stuart Mill . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Mill , J. S. 1833 . Corporation and...

...Nahid Aslanbeigui Michael Freeden. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. 185 pp. $55.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Book Reviews Reappraising J. A. Hobson: Humanism and Welfare. Edited by Michael Freeden. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. 185 pp. $55.00. In commemorating the...

... : 191 -202. Weinstein , Neil D. 1980 . Unrealistic Optimism about Future Life Events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 . 5 : 806 -20. Adam Smith and the Welfare Cost of Optimism Jurg Niehans Small theoretical nuggets may occasionally still be found in the aban...

...William L. Miller Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Mr. Miller is Professor of Economics in the University of Georgia. Herbert Spencer’s Theory of Welfare and Public Policy William L. Miller...

... University Press CCC 00 18-2702/86/$1.50 Aristotle as a welfare economist: a comment, with a reply by Stephen T. Worland Richard Temple-Smith Stephen Worland’s claim of a ‘‘deep and abiding complementarity between the moral philosophy of Aristotle and...

... material welfare) are two distinct but not inconsistcnt aims" (p. 98). Yet. to Pagano's distress, in the end Walras misses thc opportunity (as well as thc point) and uses leisure as the adjustment mechanism. Thc remainder of the book presents a formalized (mathematically noted) state- ment of...

... skilled in the art of exposi- tion who starts his narrative: To understand William Pitt’s policy of social welfare, one must penetrate the confusion of terminology. Who were the poor people of Pitt’s time? They were all people without income from property or profession and...

... Political Economy 10:4 0 1978 by Duke University Press French engineers, welfare economics, and public finance in the nineteenth century Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and Robert F. He‘bert Division of labor, in research as well...

...Michael McLure The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics . By Kumekawa Ian . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2017 . 352 $35.00 Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Aslanbeigui Nahid Oakes Guy . 2015 . Arthur...

...Terry Peach Based on an appraisal of Smith's (nonutilitarian) understanding of happiness in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , this article considers the possible origin, meaning, and fate of the “real measure” qua index of social happiness/welfare. It is suggested that the original welfare usage was...

...Steven G. Medema Henry Sidgwick's loss of religious faith is central to understanding the origins of the Cambridge school of welfare economics. The most prominent “public” manifestation of this loss and its impact on Sidgwick's thought was his Methods of Ethics , which was at once the capstone work...

... the level of national welfare and the civic participation the laws have to improve the position of the least advantaged individuals; the constitution has to sanction this principle of justice and it is the task of the legislator to enforce it. Correspondence may be addressed to Fabrizio Simon...

... Fifty Years.'' The principal findings of the study are as follows: Pigou's first thesis is more important to his subsequent and famous studies on wealth and welfare than is generally appreciated; and the assessors' diverse reactions to his second thesis largely reflect their different views on the scope...