Talk:Welfarism

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This may belong on both list of ethics topics and list of economics topics. Would suggest that the author review the following to include how they relate: social welfare function, welfare economics, Amartya Sen, human development, human development theory, human capital.

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It does not explain what is welfarism. It just goes around the subject.

Welfarism is not a form of consequentialism. It is an axiological theory. Roughly speaking, welfarism + consequentialism = utilitarianism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.160.30.91 (talk) 14:26, 25 October 2007 (UTC)