...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...

... 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...

... opposition to the postwar welfare state notions of social justice and equality. Correspondence may be addressed to Daniel Zamora Vargas: daniel.zamora.vargas@ulb.ac.be . Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 poverty human rights social Catholicism vital minimum personalism...

... and promoted as a young man to the inner circles of the Social Democratic Party, Lindbeck fell under the sway of market-liberal ideas as he aged and eventually became a vocal and influential critic of the Swedish welfare state. Offer and Söderberg turn this story into a page turner while also...

... . Incomes and the Welfare State. Essays on Britain and Europe . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Atkinson Anthony . 1995b . Public Economics in Action: The Basic Income/Flat Tax Proposal. Oxford : Clarendon Press . Atkinson Anthony . 1997 . “ Bringing Income Distribution...

... a state which has no meaningful ability to govern, but merely drifts into piecemeal economic intervention, and from a welfare-state capitalism where the public welfare is nothing more than the outcome of nefarious private deals. Stanfield paints a very bleak picture. Let me show you some...

... and welfare issues. Thereby, the article investigates how econometrics was anchored in a tension between being stated as a tool of knowledge defined within a reference to positivism on the one hand, and as a mean of changing society and creating a better world on the other. Three main issues of debate can...

... allowed both intra and interpersonal comparisons, thus justifying the use of mathematical techniques to answer welfare issues. Edgeworth found inspiration in a similar quest, the invention of temperature, which had permitted the transformation of a feeling, “coldness,” into a physical quantity...

... welfare spending (which was actually done by Bismarck in the process of unifying Germany). Maddison pre- sents data on the rise of the welfare state coupled with brief summaries of the history of welfare spending in the major countries. Having looked at the history, Maddison finds...

... rates. However, with all the good governance of the ancient Chinese governments that is summarized in this part, we should bear in mind that “of course, the Qing [the last dynasty in China] was far from a modern welfare state” (Kaske, 19). In fact, any imperial government is far from a welfare state...

... for their exceptionally helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 laissez-faire common good welfare state George Eliot Henry Sidgwick References Alborn Timothy L. 1995 . “The Moral of the Failed Bank: Professional Plots in the Victorian...

... proportion of public spending. Wagner believed that the state would attempt to legitimate capitalism by social welfare spending (which was actually done by Bismarck in the process of unifying Germany). Maddison pre- sents data on the rise of the welfare state coupled with brief summaries...

... characterization of his later position on the classical case for free trade as “unusually mournful and apologetic, and quite atypical48Viner states that he had sought to show that “the classical welfare theory can still be of service in performing the negative function of demonstrating...

... (such as land tenure, trade arrangements, empire, and fiscal and monetary arrangements 786Book Reviews and the “welfare state,” to name the titles of four of the five sections that subdivide the book’s contents). Historians of economics can nevertheless benefit from some of this material. Many...

.... D. 1938 . Mathematical Analysis for Economists . London : Macmillan . Barr Nicholas A. 1993 . The Economics of the Welfare State . Stanford, Cal. : Stanford University Press . Barr Nicholas A. 2001 . The Welfare State as Piggy Bank: Information, Risk...

... Journal 23 ( 3 ): 301 – 16 . Backhouse Roger E. Nishizawa Tamotsu , eds. 2010 . No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Bharadwaj Krishna . 1972 . “ Marshall on Pigou’s Wealth and Welfare...

... explanation for the renewed emphasis on neoclassical economics concerns the cost of the “welfare states.” As social legislation programs encompassed more and more sectors of the population, a big expansion of the welfare state occurred, and as economic growth in industrial countries slowed, budget...

..., and the importance of clear property rights and responsibilities. Though Robbins recognizes a very subtle point on the general social value of unions (p. 60), he also recommends that unions be subject to antitrust laws and laments the spectre of union power in a welfare state in which striking...