Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945
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'This book offers a new perspective on the development of welfare economics in the first half of the twentieth century. Backhouse and Nishizawa's team, comprising leading specialists from six countries, has produced a marvellous combination of perceptive analysis and wide thinking. No Wealth but Life is a milestone in the intellectual history of the economic strategies of the New Liberalism.' Eugenio F. Biagini, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
'Everybody is familiar with the old-new welfare economics divide and Arrow's impossibility theorem as the landmark issues through which the discipline took its present shape. Backhouse and Nishizawa convincingly argue that, from the point of view of the intellectual origins of the modern welfare state, there is another and equally important issue that has not received equal attention: the divide between the economists who saw welfare economics as a branch of utility analysis and those who built on the foundations of the Oxford idealism of T. H. Green and of Ruskin's moral critique of capitalism with a view to immediate political action. The essays collected in the volume highlight moments and characters of this intellectual divide, which was originally a Cambridge-Oxford affair but subsequently led to wider echoes in Britain and in other countries. They make fascinating reading, especially in this age of rethinking the purposes and viability of political welfare systems and attempts at reconstructing welfare economics on non-utilitarian premises.' Marco Dardi, University of Florence, Italy
'No Wealth but Life is an instructive contribution to the history of British welfare economics, questioning and refining the standard views on the subject. The book considerably enriches the common narrative - all too often confined to the Cambridge School - both by drawing attention to a relatively neglected but influential Oxford (and LSE) approach to welfare and by exploring the influence of welfare economics on public policy in Great Britain. The carefully selected papers - nicely put into context by the editors' highly informative introduction and postscript - illuminate various aspects of this intricate story. I have little doubt that the volume will become a must-read for all scholars of the history of welfare economics.' Guido Erreygers, University of Antwerp, Belgium
'No Wealth but Life rescues welfare economics from the sterility of pure theory and returns the story to the men and women who imagined that economics might help mitigate urban poverty. Politi...
Roger E. Backhouse was a lecturer at University College London and at the University of Keele, before moving to the University of Birmingham in 1980, where he has been Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics since 1996. In 2009 he took a part-time position at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. After writing two textbooks on macroeconomics, he moved into the history of economics and methodology, on which he has published many articles in the leading journals, including History of Political Economy, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. His books include A History of Modern Economic Analysis (1985), Economists and the Economy (1994), Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge (1997), and The Penguin History of Economics (2002) (published in North America as The Ordinary Business of Life, 2002). Books he has edited include The Cambridge Companion to Keynes (with Bradley W. Bateman). He has been review editor of the Economic Journal, editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology, and associate editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Tamotsu Nishizawa was a lecturer and then an associate professor at Osaka City University before moving to Hitotsubashi University in 1990, where he has been a professor since 1993 and Director of the Institute of Economic Research since 2007. He was a visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, from 2000 to 2001. His research field has been the history of economic thought. Professor Nishizawa's main publications include Economic Heretics: Economic Policy Ideas of the 19th Century Birmingham School (1994, in Japanese) and Economic Thought of Alfred Marshall and the Historical School (2007, in Japanese). He has edited several books, including Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution: Economic Sociology of Capitalist Development (with Y. Shionoya, 2009). He was also the editor of the Journal of the Society of the History of Economic Thought in Japan.
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.