----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- For the 1890-1915 period, especially as it relates to the _Economic Journal_, a very useful source of information is chapter 6, "The Economics of Poverty and Welfare," in Narmadeshwar Jha, _The Age of Marshall_ (London: Frank Cass, 1973). For the same time period (and at the risk of suggesting my own work), one could take a look at chapter 2, "Some Developments in Welfare Economics 1890-1910," in the unpublished doctoral dissertation of Bruce Larson, "The Analysis of Interests in the Economics of Charles Frederick Bickerdike" (Chapel Hill: 1983). Bruce Larson ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]