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Economic Welfare

In: Lionel Robbins

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  • D. P. O’Brien

    (University of Durham)

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This chapter deals with Robbins’s writings on economic welfare. Robbins, it emerges, was a Utilitarian in the tradition stemming from Bentham and transmitted by, in particular, Jevons. From this Utilitarian base, coupled with a fundamental appreciation of the market and a crucial stress on the importance of liberty, Robbins dealt with matters of equality, State intervention, redistribution, taxation, socialism, competition and economic growth. It should already be clear from Chapter 3 that Robbins’s methodological position did not involve the proposition that economists should abstain from comment on policy matters. Examination of his discussions concerning economic welfare should help to make this even more clear.

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  • D. P. O’Brien, 1988. "Economic Welfare," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Lionel Robbins, chapter 5, pages 51-72, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-09683-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09683-1_5
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