An Aspect of Welfare Economics in the Fomative Age-Pigou and Eugenics-
探讨了20世纪初优生学与庇古福利经济学的冲突，优生学反对救助弱者，而庇古主张援助底层阶级，并分析了庇古如何为福利经济学辩护。
Eugenics, a scientific position advocating strengthening a nation through genetic improvements, emerged around the end of the 19th century and became the dominant influence of the day. Eugenics contended that policies supporting the weak and the disabled would lead to nothing but deterioration of the stock of the nation. Hence, eugenicists, in general, were strongly opposed to a welfare policy assisting the poor with inferior innate talents. This eugenic conclusion, however, was completely in contrast to the idea of Pigou's welfare economics that entails extending assistance to the "lower" class. Accordingly, Pigou took the lead in defending welfare economics from eugenicists' severe disapproval.