...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...

...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...

...Michael Munger Liberalism and the Welfare State: Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State . Edited by Backhouse Roger E. Bateman Bradley W. Nishizawa Tamotsu Plehwe Dieter . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xxvi; 250 pp. $74.00 . Copyright © 2019...

...G. C. Peden Book Reviews The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. By George R. Boyer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiii; 346 pp. $45.00. Nearly half of working-class families in England in the nineteenth and early twenti- eth...

... 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...

... . 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...

... 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...

...Mark Blaug The Fundamental Theorems of Modern Welfare Economics, Historically Contemplated Mark Blaug Modern welfare economics is formally summed up in two so-called funda- mental theorems. The fi rst fundamental theorem states that, subject to cer- tain exceptions—such as externalities...

...Jürg Niehans Adam Smith and the Welfare Cost of Optimism Jurg Niehans Small theoretical nuggets may occasionally still be found in the aban- doned mine shafts of ancient literature. Adam Smith, in his well-known defense of interest ceilings, seems to have stumbled upon a source...

... 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...

...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...

... repeal of the Corn Laws.) Cowherd’s book is a deftly written analysis of the pressures for reform of the traditional English Poor Laws. Anyone is surely skilled in the art of exposi- tion who starts his narrative: To understand William Pitt’s policy of social welfare, one must penetrate...

...Richard Temple-Smith History of Political Economy 18:3 0 1986 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/86/$1.50 Aristotle as a welfare economist: a comment, with a reply by Stephen T...

... assertion that "it is possible to conceive of an ideal world which is able to deliionstrate that justicc and social interest (or 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 903. Welfare Economics: An Interpretive History. By Roger A. McCain. London: Rout- ledge, 2019. 240 pp. $160. Roger A. McCain s book aims to review the history of welfare economics, from its utilitarian foundations to the most recent developments. This objective is both ambi- tious and fascinating...