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 p...

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Main Authors: Backhouse, Roger E. , 1951- (Author), Nishizawa, Tamotsu , 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press , c2010
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245 0 2 |a No wealth but life :   |b welfare economics and the welfare state in Britain, 1880 - 1945   |c edited by Roger E. Backhouse, Tamotsu Nishizawa 
260 |a New York :   |b Cambridge University Press ,   |c c2010 
300 |a xi, 244 p. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. IIntroduction: towards a reinterpretation of the history of welfare economics -- 2. Marshall on welfare economics and the welfare state -- 3. Pigou's "Prima Facie Case": market failure in theory and practice -- 4. Welfare, taxation and social justice: reflections on Cambridge economists from Marshall to Keynes -- 5. The Oxford approach to the philosophical foundations of the welfare state -- 6. J.A. Hobson as a welfare economist -- 7. The ethico-historical approach abroad: the case of Fukuda -- 8. The great educator of unlikely people: H.G Wells and the origins of the welfare state -- 9. Whose welfare state? Beveridge versus Keynes -- 10. Beveridge on a welfare society: an integration of his trilogy -- 11. Welfare economics, old and new 
520 |a "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 against a less well-known Oxford approach to welfare: Yuichi Shionoya explores its foundations in the idealist philosophy of T. H. Green; Roger E. Backhouse considers the work of its leading exponent, J. A. Hobson; and Tamotsu Nishizawa discusses the spread of this approach in Britain. Finally, the book covers welfare economics in the policy arena: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Atsushi Komine discuss Keynes and Beveridge, and Richard Toye points to the possible influence of H. G. Wells on Churchill and Lloyd George. A substantial introduction frames the discussion, and a postscript relates these ideas to the work of Robbins and subsequent developments in welfare economics"--Provided by publisher 
650 0 |a Public welfare   |z Great Britain   |x History 
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650 0 |a Welfare state   |z Great Britain   |x History 
700 1 |a Backhouse, Roger E. ,   |d 1951- ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Nishizawa, Tamotsu ,   |d 1950- ,   |e author 
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