Faith, Morality, and Welfare: The English School of Welfare Economics, 1901–29
研究了20世纪初英国福利经济学派三位代表人物如何将宗教信念融入经济学，为福利经济学提供伦理判断，回应维多利亚时代教会面临的挑战。
In the first three decades of the twentieth century, a group of British economists, described by Walton Hamilton as the “English welfare school,” sought to bring religious convictions into economics through providing the ethical judgments underlying welfare economics. This article focuses on three members of this group—J. A. Hobson, R. H. Tawney, and Henry Clay. Although they differed in their political and religious views, they were all responding to the challenges faced by the Victorian church. Society was believed to rest on a morality, and when a foundation could no longer be found in traditional Christian beliefs, it had to be sought either through reinterpreting these beliefs or looking elsewhere. Tawney turned to Christian socialism, remaining within the Church of England, and Hobson turned to the Ethical Movement, but both were seeking ethical judgments that could serve as a foundation for welfare economics.