No Wealth But Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945

by Roger E. Backhouse

Book Overview

This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state. There are fresh views of the well-known Cambridge School of Sidgwick, Marshall, Pigou, and Keynes, by Peter Groenewegen, Steven G. Medema, and Martin Daunton. This is placed against a less well-known Oxford approach to welfare: Yuichi Shionoya explores its foundations in the idealist philosophy of T. H. Green; Roger E. Backhouse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107569435
• ISBN13: 9781107569430
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"