Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought - Rilegato

Stabile, Donald R.

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ISBN 10: 031329738X ISBN 13: 9780313297380

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 1996

Riassunto

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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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).

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).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 031329738X
• ISBN 13: 9780313297380
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia