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Welfare Economics

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Welfare Economics book

An Interpretive History

Welfare Economics

DOI link for Welfare Economics

Welfare Economics book

An Interpretive History
ByRoger A. McCain
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 9 May 2019
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543116
Pages 240 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315543116
SubjectsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry, Humanities
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McCain, R. (2019). Welfare Economics. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543116

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|5 pages

Objective and scope of the work

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chapter 2|24 pages

Utilitarianism for Pigou’s welfare economics

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chapter 3|27 pages

Pigou and the founding of welfare economics

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chapter 4|20 pages

Preference theory and the emergence of the New Welfare Economics

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chapter 5|24 pages

Social preference

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chapter 6|20 pages

Utility and welfare

Further development
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chapter 7|28 pages

Loss of coherence

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chapter 8|34 pages

The veil of ignorance

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chapter 9|22 pages

Diverging paths

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chapter 10|21 pages

Happiness and behavioral welfare economics

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chapter 11|7 pages

Whither?

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