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Welfare theory, public action, and ethical values : revisiting the history of welfare economics / edited by Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham, Antoinette Baujard, Universite Jean Monnet, Tamotsu Nishizawa, Teikyo University Japan.

Contributor(s): Backhouse, Roger | Baujard, Antoinette | Nishizawa, TamotsuMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Singapore Cambridge c2021Description: 338p HBISBN: 9781108841450; 9781108794848Subject(s): Welfare economics | Economics | Public welfareDDC classification: 330.1556
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Table of Contents
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.

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