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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Other Authors: Backhouse, Roger, 1951-, Nishizawa, Tamotsu, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: towards a reinterpretation of the history of welfare economics Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa; Part I. Cambridge Welfare Economics and the Welfare State: 2. Marshall on welfare economics and the welfare state Peter Groenewegen; 3. Pigou's 'prima facie case': market failure in theory and practice Steven G. Medema; 4. Welfare, taxation and social justice: reflections on Cambridge economists from Marshall to Keynes Martin Daunton; Part II. Oxford Ethics and the Problem of Welfare: 5. The Oxford approach to the philosophical foundations of the welfare state Yuichi Shionoya; 6. J. A. Hobson as a welfare economist Roger E. Backhouse; 7. The ethico-historical approach abroad: the case of Fukuda Tamotsu Nishizawa; Part III. Welfare Economics in the Policy Arena: 8. 'The great educator of unlikely people': H. G. Wells and the origins of the welfare state Richard Toye; 9. Whose welfare state? Beveridge versus Keynes Maria Cristina Marcuzzo; 10. Beveridge on a welfare society: an integration of his trilogy Atsushi Komine; Part IV. Postscript: 11. Welfare economics, old and new Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa.