discussing public policy. Welfarism, non-welfarism, welfare, public policy, ethics, economics, individualism Introduction Welfare … economics By Roger E. Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa The Introduction explains the concepts of welfarism … economics is the part of economics that deals with evaluating states of the world and formulating recommendations for policies …

This innovative history of welfare economics challenges the view that welfare economics can be discussed without taking …. Even canonical authors in the history of welfare economics are shown to have adopted ethical positions different from those … implications of this, drawing on concepts of welfarism and non-welfarism developed in modern welfare economics. The authors …

Robbins's Essay was significant in many ways, but especially in giving economics a definition that came to dominate the … professional literature. Our goal in the present paper is to trace the reception of Robbins's definition of economics as, to use a … the definition, focusing on explicit discussions of the definition in the academic journals and in economics textbooks …