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Welfare and Values

Challenging the Culture of Unconcern

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Peter Askonas

    1. Heythrop College, University of London, UK
      Christian Association of Business Executives, UK

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  2. Stephen F. Frowen

    1. Department of Economics, University College, London, UK
      Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Economic Realities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Crisis in Welfare?

      • Andrew Dilnot
      Pages 3-17

    3. A Mixed Economy of Care

      • Jeremy Kendall, Martin Knapp
      Pages 18-29

    4. Transfer through Taxation

      • Dieter Biehl
      Pages 30-41

    5. Economic Restraints

      • Ian Steedman
      Pages 42-49

  3. Self and Community — ‘Doing Theology’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. A Platform — Moral and Spiritual Values

      • Rupert Hoare
      Pages 53-68

    3. Jewish Tradition and Ethos of Generosity

      • Meir Tamari
      Pages 69-76

    4. The Idea of the Public Good

      • James O’Connell
      Pages 77-89

    5. Theology and Sharing the Economic Cake

      • Peter Vardy
      Pages 90-102

    6. Looking Behind the Scenes

      • Peter Askonas, Cho Ngye Kwan
      Pages 103-116

  4. Generosity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. ‘Enthusiasm’

      • Jane Tewson, Maggie Baxter, Michael Walsh
      Pages 119-124

    3. After Darkness

      • Martin Šály
      Pages 125-131

  5. What Can be Done — by Economists and Politicians

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Economic Expansion

      • Gavin Davies
      Pages 135-137

    3. Need for Economic Expansion

      • Stephen F. Frowen
      Pages 138-143

    4. Choking on Growth

      • Frank Turner
      Pages 144-156

    5. On De-escalating Wants

      • Ian Steedman
      Pages 157-164
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays takes a hard look at the gap between increasingly costs expectations of welfare including other social needs and available revenues. It shows that the issue is not a purely economic and certainly not a party-political one, but that it has significant ethical, some call it spiritual, components. From providing initially a broad account of welfare economics it presents contributions from political philosophers and theologians as well as accounts of successful initiatives to indicate the direction for solutions which will correspond to the complex realities of post-modern society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Heythrop College, University of London, UK

    Peter Askonas

  • Christian Association of Business Executives, UK

    Peter Askonas

  • Department of Economics, University College, London, UK

    Stephen F. Frowen

  • Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK

    Stephen F. Frowen

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