Verlagsinfo: "Introduction to Welfare theory, public action and ethical values Revisiting the history of welfare economics By Roger E. Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa The Introduction explains the concepts of welfarism and non-welfarism, relating it to the way economists have...

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Keynes Returns, but Which Keynes? -- 2. The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics -- 3. Keynes the Moral Philosopher: Confronting the Challenges to Capitalism -- 4. Keynes the Physician: Developing a Theory of a Capitalist Economy -- 5. Keynes's Ambiguous Revolution -- 6....