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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Table of Contents:
- 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