What’s wrong with poverty

John Broome

  • On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen
    Blackwell, 131 pp, £14.95, May 1987, ISBN 0 631 15494 9
  • The Standard of Living by Amartya Sen, edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn
    Cambridge, 125 pp, £15.00, September 1987, ISBN 0 521 32101 8

Welfare economics is concerned with what economic arrangements we should have, and what governments should do in economic matters. It is about right and good in economics. So it is a branch of ethics, the study of right and good in general. There is no dividing line between theoretical welfare economics and practical ethics.

You are not Logged In

  • If you have already registered login here
  • If you are a print subscriber using the site for the first time please register here
  • If you are not yet a subscriber you can subscribe here
  • If you are a member of a subscribing institution or University library please login here
  • If you have an Institutional print subscription and online access is not included, find out about our Institutional online subscriptions