No wealth but life welfare economics and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945
This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state. There are fresh views of the well-known Cambridge School of Sidgwick, Marshall, Pigou, and Keynes, by Peter Groenewegen, Steven G. Medema, and Martin Daunton. This is placed...
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: towards a reinterpretation of the history of welfare economics / Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa
- Marshall on welfare economics and the welfare state / Peter Groenewegen
- Pigou's "prima facie case": market failure in theory and practice / Steven G. Medema
- Welfare, taxation and social justice: reflections on Cambridge economists from Marshall to Keynes / Martin Daunton
- The Oxford approach to the philosophical foundations of the welfare state / Yuichi Shionoya
- J.A. Hobson as a welfare economist / Roger E. Backhouse
- The ethico-historical approach abroad: the case of Fukuda / Tamotsu Nishizawa
- "The great educator of unlikely people": H.G. Wells and the origins of the welfare state / Richard Toye
- Whose welfare state? Beveridge versus Keynes / Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
- Beveridge on a welfare society: an integration of his trilogy / Atsushi Komine
- Welfare economics, old and new / Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa