ABSTRACT OF PAPER
Title: BRITISH ECONOMISTS, JUSTICE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Author: Godden Christopher
Writing during the First World War, a number of British economists – including Edwin Cannan, J.A. Hobson and A.C. Pigou – recognised that the inevitable problems arising from prolonged military conflict were acting to forge a closer relationship between economics and justice. This paper will consider their attitudes regarding the ethical appropriateness of various aspects of war-time policy decisions. These will include: (1) the relationship between the economic and ethical needs for higher war-time taxation; (2) the impact of war production controls and conscription on liberty and justice; and (3) the question of justice in relation to the problems of war-time and early post-war inflation.
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