Work and Welfare

The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought

AvDonald R. Stabile

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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This interesting work presents a unique perspective on the history of economic thought by showing that classical economists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall had sympathy for workers - for example, the theory of the subsistence wage echoed the theological call for a just wage that existed in the middle ages. It also describes how these thinkers promoted either a set of social obligations or a form of social insurance to assist workers. These economic thinkers of the past argued that a subsistence standard of living was important to maintain and improve workers' efficiency and to raise healthy families. The notion that these writers had an undeveloped theory of social costs that they applied to labor should appeal to economists and others concerned with the plight of workers as the modern economy restructures itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-02-06
Mått:156 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:482 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions in Economics and Economic History
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313297380

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DONALD R. STABILE is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland. He is associate editor of Business Library Review and has conducted seminars on Thorstein Veblen and Alexander Hamilton for the program of summer seminars for school teachers of the National Endowment for Humanities. He is coauthor (with Jeffrey Cantor) of The Public Debt of the United States (Praeger, 1991), and author of Activist Unionism (1993) and Prophets of Orde(1984).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Just Wage and the Standard of LivingAdam Smith: The Friend of LaborMalthus, Ricardo and Bentham: The Fund for Maintaining LaborJohn Stuart Mill and Labor's ResponsibilityKarl Marx: The Alienation and Exploitation of LaborMarginalism, Moral Character and WorkInstitutional Economics and the Community Approach to LaborOrthodox Economics and the Scientific Treatment of LaborConclusion: The Endangered WorkerBibliographyIndex