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- Title
Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics.
- Authors
Igersheim, Herrade
- Abstract
Indeed, as depicted by Abram Bergson ([4]) and Samuelson ([12], [13]), the elaboration of the so-called Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function goes back to their common Harvard days during the late thirties, when both tried to understand the "more obscure chapters of Pareto's I Manuel i " (Hicks [7], quoted by Backhouse [2], p. 170). Backhouse, Roger E., Baujard, Antoinette, and Nishizawa, Tamotsu, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. ix + 338, £75 (hardcover). On the contrary, according to Backhouse, Baujard, and Nishizawa, non-welfarist elements are present from the very beginning of the history of welfare economics, especially "when (seemingly welfarist) economists engage with practice" (p. 7).
- Subjects
WELFARE economics; HISTORY of economics; VALUES (Ethics); JOB applications; SOCIAL choice
- Publication
Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Cambridge University Press), 2023, Vol 45, Issue 2, p356
- ISSN
1053-8372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1053837222000335