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Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values - Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics

English · Hardback

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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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Authors Roger E. Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard
Assisted by Roger E Backhouse (Editor), Roger E. Backhouse (Editor), Antoinette Baujard (Editor), Tamotsu Nishizawa (Editor), Nishizawa Tamotsu (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2021
 
EAN 9781108841450
ISBN 978-1-108-84145-0
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 159 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
Series Print on Demand
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management

Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Economic history, Welfare economics, Microeconomics

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