GOOD, ECONOMIC WELFARE, AND THE NATIONAL DIVIDEND—PIGOU’S WELFARE TRIAD
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Published:2023-03-10
Issue:3
Volume:45
Page:403-426
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ISSN:1053-8372
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Container-title:Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Hist Econ Thought
Abstract
Arthur Pigou’s welfare treatises are exercises in practical ethics. The exercises were founded on the ethical concepts of good and economic welfare with the economist’s national dividend providing the practical instrument for solving economic problems. This paper follows this triad from its origins in Pigou’s earliest writings on ethics and economic policy, into the welfare treatises, and onto his last writings—a period of around fifty years.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,General Arts and Humanities
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