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Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values

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  • Backhouse,Roger E.
  • Baujard,Antoinette
  • Nishizawa,Tamotsu

Abstract

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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  • Backhouse,Roger E. & Baujard,Antoinette & Nishizawa,Tamotsu (ed.), 2021. "Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781108841450, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9781108841450
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    1. Antoinette BAUJARD & Muriel GILARDONE, 2020. "Reconciling agency and impartiality: positional views as the cornerstone of Sen’s idea of justice," Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS 2020-03-ccr, Condorcet Center for political Economy.
    2. Antoinette Baujard, 2021. "A review of Adler's "Measuring social Welfare"," Working Papers 2113, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon.
    3. Depro, Brooks, 2022. "Making introductory economics more relevant: Using personalized connections to introduce environmental economics," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 39(C).
    4. Erasmo, Valentina, 2021. "Female economists and philosophers’ role in Amartya Sen’s thought: his colleagues and his scholars," MPRA Paper 105769, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Virginie Gouverneur, 2022. "Families and Women in Alfred Marshall’s Analysis of Well-being and Progress," Working Papers of BETA 2022-35, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.

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