This innovative history of welfare economics challenges the view that welfare economics can be discussed without taking ethical values into account. Whatever their theoretical commitments, when economists have considered practical problems relating to public policy, they have adopted a wider...

Paul Samuelson is renowned as a debunker of Alfred Marshall. This chapter reviews his assessments of Marshall. It concludes that, although the conventional view is correct, it is important also to recognise that Samuelson considered Marshall to have been a great economist, albeit one who could...