福利经济学述评

Commenting on welfare economics

福利经济学是西方经济学的一个重要分支,随着社会经济的发展,福利事业越来越受到国家、社会和人们的重视,福利经济学作为一个理论体系也得到了一定程度的发展。福利经济学的开山鼻祖是阿瑟.塞西尔.庇古,20世纪30年代的一场大争论使西方福利经济学发生了一次大的转折:旧福利经济学被新福利经济学所取代。从20世纪70年代开始,西方福利经济学进入了一个大的发展时期,而向效用主义和基数效用理论的回归趋势,则是这一时期的主流。

Welfare economics is an important branch of western economics. Along with the development of society and economic,welfare work is attached importance more and more by states, society and people, as a theoretical system welfare economics develops to a certain extent. The creator of welfare economics is Arthur＇, a great dispute in 1930s make western welfare economics transfer：old welfare economics is replaced by new welfare economics. From 1970s, western welfare economics enters into a great development stage, the trends to regress effectiveness and radix effect theory are the mainstream in this stage.