Book Review: Jan Tinbergen and Dietrich Fischer, Warfare and Welfare: Integrating Security Policy into Socio-economie Policy (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987, 307pp., £27.00). Deborah Dwork, War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children: A History of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England 1898-1918 (London: Tavistock, 1987, 189pp., £38.50)
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Book ReviewJan Tinbergen and Dietrich Fischer, Warfare and Welfare: Integrating Security Policy into Socio-economie Policy (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987, 307pp., £27.00). Deborah Dwork, War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children: A History of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England 1898-1918 (London: Tavistock, 1987, 189pp., £38.50) SAGE Publications, Inc.1988DOI: 10.1177/03058298880170020425 Frances R.Woolley Department of Economics at the London School of Economics Each of these books links the themes of welfare and war. Tinbergen and Fischer consider attainment of welfare, in the sense of human satisfaction, and ask what socio-economic/security policies achieve optimum welfare. Dwork examines the British child welfare movement between 1898 and 1918. The movement was strengthened, at the beginning of this period, by Boer War defeats and recruiting difficulties and, at the end, by casualties from the Great War. The attainment of optimum welfare is the ultimate aim of socio-economic policy. Tinbergen and Fischer argue that, as war decreases welfare, socio-economic policy should include security as a goal. As the book's subtitle suggests, security policy is to be integrated into socio-economic policy. The integrated policy will aim for 'optimal welfare-cum-security.' How is optimal welfare-cum-security achieved? The right socio-economic/ security policy is determined by three