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An Aspect of Welfare Economics in the Fomative Age-Pigou and Eugenics-

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  • Yamazaki, Satoshi

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Eugenics, a scientific position advocating strengthening a nation through genetic improvements, emerged around the end of the 19th century and became the dominant influence of the day. Eugenics contended that policies supporting the weak and the disabled would lead to nothing but deterioration of the stock of the nation. Hence, eugenicists, in general, were strongly opposed to a welfare policy assisting the poor with inferior innate talents. This eugenic conclusion, however, was completely in contrast to the idea of Pigou's welfare economics that entails extending assistance to the "lower" class. Accordingly, Pigou took the lead in defending welfare economics from eugenicists' severe disapproval.

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  • Yamazaki, Satoshi, 2014. "An Aspect of Welfare Economics in the Fomative Age-Pigou and Eugenics-," Economic Review, Hitotsubashi University, vol. 65(2), pages 126-139, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:hit:ecorev:v:65:y:2014:i:2:p:126-139
    DOI: 10.15057/27347
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    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • B13 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian)
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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