Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a … - Kenneth E. Boulding

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It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process.

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