Tackling War-Time Injustices: Ideas of Justice in the Writings of British Economists during the First World War

Christopher Godden

Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2016, vol. 136, issue 4, 401-415

Abstract: This essay explores the views of three British economics - Arthur Pigou, Edwin Cannan, and J. A. Hobson - in relation to the ethical appropriateness of different aspects of policies and actions in Britain during the First World War. The focus of the piece is on three themes: (1) the importance of tackling distributive injustices associated with Britain’s war finance policies, (2) working-class perceptions of injustice as a social-psychological force capable of generating industrial discontent, and (3) political injustices associated with the war-time suppression of legal rights and individual liberties.

Date: 2016
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