...Michael Munger Book Reviews Liberalism and the Welfare State: Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State. Edited by Roger E. Backhouse, Bradley W. Bateman, Tamotsu Nishizawa, and Dieter Plehwe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxvi; 250 pp. $74.00. I am often asked I identify...

...G. C. Peden The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain . By Boyer George R. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xiii ; 346 pp. $45.00 . Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Book Reviews The Winding Road...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Herrade Igersheim The death of welfare economics has been declared several times. One of the reasons cited for these plural obituaries is that Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem, as set out in his pathbreaking Social Choice and Individual Values in 1951, has shown that the social welfare...

...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...

... 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...

...Mario Pomini Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) is well known as the founder of the subjective theory of probability. Less known is his contribution to economic theory. The article presents the contributions of de Finetti in the field of welfare economics. He advanced a new mathematical tool: the theory...

...Jeremy Shearmur Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 From Hayek to Menger: biology, subjectivism, and welfare Jeremy Shearmur As a people attains higher levels of civilization, and as men penetrate more deeply into the true constitution of things and of their own nature, the number...

... . History of 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...

... University GERARDM. KOOT Welfare, Justice and Freedom. By Scott Gordon. New York: Columbia Uni- versity Press, 1980. Pp. 234. $17.50. Thrice cursed on his expulsion from Eden, forced to become the political, the economic, and the moral animal, mankind must-according to the theme...

.... 1921 . The Political Economy of War . London : Macmillan . Pigou A. C. 1940 . The Political Economy of War . New and rev. ed. London : Macmillan . Pigou A. C. 1962 . The Economics of Welfare . 4th ed. London : Macmillan . Robinson E. A. G. 1971 . [Memorial...

...Herrade Igersheim igersheim@unistra.fr Welfare Economics: An Interpretive History . By McCain Roger A. . London : Routledge , 2019 . 240 pp. $160 . Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 References Backhouse Roger E. Baujard Antoinette Nishizawa...

...Thomas Michael Mueller Harold Hotelling’s work, from natural resources economics to optimal taxation, and from spatial to welfare economics, was deeply influenced by his Georgist affiliation and by a Georgist game that we now call Monopoly, which at the time was known as the Landlord’s Game. We...

... Is not an Object 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...

...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...

... : 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...

...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...

... Political 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...