Our forthcoming book, Welfare Theory, Public Action and Ethical Values challenges the belief that, until modern welfare economics introduced issues such as justice, freedom and equality, economists adopted what Amartya Sen called “welfarism.” This is the belief that the welfare of society...

Was ist Wohlstand? Die Beantwortung dieser Frage ist gar nicht so einfach. Denn dieser ökonomische Alltagsbegriff ist nicht eindeutig. In der Ökonomik wird „Wohlstand“ selten definiert, es existieren verschiedene Verständnisse nebeneinander und diese sind in spezifische Narrative...

The aim of this paper is to explain the process of diversification of normative economics by presenting the work of two authors: Tibor Scitovsky [1910-2002] and Amartya Sen [1933-]. While these two authors first contributed to traditional welfare analysis from within, they were subsequently...