Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought

by Donald R. Stabile

This interesting work presents a unique perspective on the history of economic thought by showing that classical economists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall had sympathy for workers - for example, the theory of the subsistence wage echoed the theological call for a just wage that existed in the middle ages. It also describes how these thinkers promoted either a set of social obligations or a form of social insurance to assist workers. These economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387547851
• ISBN13: 9780313297380
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"