Welfare Economics In English Utopias: From Francis Bacon To Adam Smith.

The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 112 Pp. White Cloth Spine Lettered Ion Red, Green Boards. First Hardcover Edition, A 1951 Thesis.Fine, No Marks Or Wear. An Excellent Overview Of A Critical Conjunction In Western Thought Of The Ideas Of "Utopia" And "Economics", In Which Every Attempt To Provide For The Common Welfare Is Disparaged As "Utopian" When Not Clearly And Exactly "Economic" In The Sense Of "Monetarily Profitable"- And Taxable. This Mis-Characterization Is Essential For The Arguments Against Any Political Changes Which Diminish Monetary Profits, And Has Been Successful For Hundreds Of Years, So Successful That Remediable Problems Of Pollution, Environmental Degradation, Health, Education, Fraud, Waste, Abuse, Stupidity And Actual Mental Illness Cannot Even Be Conceived Of As Within The Province Of Any Positive Or Punitive Government Action, Being Just "Dreams" For The Childlike. The Author Here Can Examine It With Dispassion Only Because He Limits His Discussion To Writers Of Hundreds Of Years Ago; A Examination Of The Modern Economists And Utopian / Dystopian Writers Would Be Almost Impossible As The Subject Of A Modern Thesis In Economics Or Literature, Those Fields Having Diverged So Greatly In Their Cultures.