Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values (eBook, PDF)

Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics
Redaktion: Backhouse, Roger E.; Nishizawa, Tamotsu; Baujard, Antoinette

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2021
• ISBN-13: 9781108898690
• Artikelnr.: 70914588

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: revisiting the history of welfare economics Roger E.
Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa; Part I. Plurality of
Welfare in the Making of Welfare Economics: 1. Ruskin's romantic triangle:
neither wealth nor beauty but life Yuichi Shionoya; 2. Radicalism versus
Ruskin: quality and quantity in Hobson's welfare economics Peter Cain; 3.
Alfred Marshall on progress and human wellbeing Tamotsu Nishizawa; 4.
Pigou's welfare economics revisited: a non-welfarist and non-utilitarian
interpretation Satoshi Yamazaki; 5. To which kind of welfare did Léon
Walras refer? The theorems and the state Richard Arena; 6. Value judgement
within Pareto's economic and sociological approaches to welfare Rogerio
Arthmar and Michael McClure; 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? Kotaro Suzumura; 8. Individualism
and ethics: Paul Samuelson's welfare economics Roger E. Backhouse; 9. Non
welfarism in the early debates over the Coase theorem: the case of
environmental economics Steven Medema; 10. Richard Musgrave and the idea of
community Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay; 11. Non-welfaristic features of
Kenneth Arrow's ideas of justice Nao Saito; 12. Beyond welfarism: the
potential and limitations of the capability approach Constanze Binder; 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 Muriel
Gilardone; Conclusion Roger E. Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard, and Tamotsu
Nishizawa.