Welfare Economics: An Interpretive History

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-72959-2
Verlag: ROUTLEDGE

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics, with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline.

Drawing on both philosophy and economics, this book offers a new and original perspective on the history of welfare economics, starting with Pigou and charting the trajectory of applied and theoretical welfare economics throughout the twentieth century.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of philosophy, economics and history of economic thought.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCain, Roger A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Objective and Scope of the Work

2. Utilitarianism for Pigou’s Welfare Economics

3. Pigou and the Economics of Welfare

4. The New Welfare Economics

5. The Success and Failure of the New Welfare Economics

6. Alternatives to Welfare Economics

7. Utilitarian Persisters

8. Is There a Way Forward? Should There Be?

Über Autor(innen)

Roger A. McCain is Professor of Economics at Drexel University, USA.