TY  - BOOK
AU  - Backhouse,Roger
AU  - Nishizawa,Tamotsu
AU  - Baujard,Antoinette
TI  - Welfare theory, public action, and ethical values: revisiting the history of welfare economics 
SN  - 9781108882507 (ebook)
AV  - HB99.3 .W436 2021
U1  - 330.15/56 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Welfare economics
KW  - History
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Economics
KW  - Sociological aspects
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108882507
ER  -