Welfare economics in some English Utopias from Francis Bacon to Adam Smith.

Door: Fuz, Jerzy Konstanty.

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• Uitgever: The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff,1952. Hardcover. 113 pp. Index. English text. Owner's stamp on title-page. Conditie: goed
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• Extra informatie: - This study investigates early notions of welfare economics as expressed in English utopian and reformist writings from the 17th to 18th centuries. Fuz examines Francis Bacon’s Nova Atlantis (1629), Samuel Hartlib’s Macaria (1641), Peter Chamberlen’s Poor Man’s Advocate (1649), and William Goffe’s How to Advance the Trade of the Nation for their “Middleway” utopian visions. Collectivist models are explored in Gerrard Winstanley’s The Law of Freedom (1652), Plockhoy’s A Way Propounded (1659), and Robert Wallace’s Various Prospects (1761). Individualistic approaches are seen in John Bellers’ Proposals (1695) and Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (1705–28). Appendices include Joseph Glanvill’s Scepsis Scientifica (1665) and Gregory King’s Tables (1688). The work situates these texts within the prehistory of welfare theory and economic thought emphasizing the role of imagination in the evolution of welfare concepts.
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