UID:
almafu_9960118956802883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-89869-6
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1-108-88250-1
Content:
This innovative history of welfare economics challenges the view that welfare economics can be discussed without taking ethical values into account. Whatever their theoretical commitments, when economists have considered practical problems relating to public policy, they have adopted a wider range of ethical values, whether equality, justice, freedom, or democracy. Even canonical authors in the history of welfare economics are shown to have adopted ethical positions different from those with which they are commonly associated. Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values explores the reasons and implications of this, drawing on concepts of welfarism and non-welfarism developed in modern welfare economics. The authors exemplify how economic theory, public affairs and political philosophy interact, challenging the status quo in order to push economists and historians to reconsider the nature and meaning of welfare economics.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics -- Part I Plurality of Welfare in the Making of Welfare Economics -- 1 Ruskin's Romantic Triangle: Neither Wealth Nor Beauty but Life -- 2 Radicalism versus Ruskin: Quality and Quantity in Hobson's Welfare Economics -- 3 Alfred Marshall on Progress and Human Wellbeing -- 4 Pigou's Welfare Economics Revisited: A Non-welfarist and Non-utilitarian Interpretation -- 5 To Which Kind of Welfare Did Léon Walras Refer?: The Theorems and the State -- 6 Value Judgement within Pareto's Economic and Sociological Approaches to Welfare -- Part II Developing Modern Welfare Economics -- 7 John Hicks's Farewell to Economic Welfarism: How Deeply Rooted and Far Reaching Is His Non-welfarist Manifesto? -- 8 Individualism and Ethics: Samuelson's Welfare Economics -- 9 Non-welfarism in the Early Debates over the Coase Theorem: The Case of Environmental Economics -- 10 Musgrave and the Idea of Community -- 11 Non-welfaristic Features of Kenneth Arrow's Idea of Justice -- 12 Beyond Welfarism: The Potential and Limitations of the Capability Approach -- 13 The Influence of Sen's Applied Economics on His Non-welfarist Approach to Justice: Agency at the Core of Public Action for Removing Injustices -- Conclusion -- Index.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108882507
