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No wealth but life : welfare economics and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 / edited by Roger E. Backhouse, Tamotsu Nishizawa.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xi, 244 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521197861 (hbk.)
  • 0521197864 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.650941 NOW 2010
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.