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Little Ian Malcolm David |
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Ethics, economics, and politics [[electronic resource] ] : principles of public policy / / I.M.D. Little |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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0-19-926872-X |
0-19-153140-5 |
1-281-93058-X |
9786611930585 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics - Moral and ethical aspects |
Economics - Philosophy |
Political science - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY; 1. Personal Utility and Welfare; Expected Utility and Risk; Risk and Fluctuations; Risk and Equality; Utility and Positive Economics; Utility and Normative Economics; 2. Collective Utility and Welfare; 3. Welfare Economics; Theoretical Welfare Economics; Applied Welfare Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis; PART II. POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY; 4. The Role of the State; Limitations of State Authority; Individual Rights; Social Contract and Property; Property and Property Rights |
5. Utilitarianism: Theory and ApplicationsUtility and the Value of Life; The State and Population Policy; What Constituency Now?-On Citizens and Foreigners; The State and Saving for the Future; 6. Utilitarianism, Justice, and Equality; Utilitarianism and Equality; Rawls's Theory of Justice; The Meaning of Justice; Distributive Justice; Interstate Distributive Justice; Dworkin and Equalizing Resources; The Measurement of Equality; Summary; 7. Contractarianism; 8. Communitarianism; PART III. ECONOMICS AND POLITICS; Introduction; |
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9. Games, Conventions, and Public Goods; Games; Conventions |
Public Goods and the State10. Positive Political Economy; Endogenizing Government; Democratic and Authoritarian Government; Collective Choice and Voting; Economic Policy under Relatively Autonomous Government; Economic Policy under Democracy; Modelling Political Economy Explanations of Policies and Trends; The Political Economy of Protection in Industrialized Countries; The Growth of Government in Industrialized Countries; Protection and Import Substitution in Developing Countries; Policy Reform in Developing Countries; An Interim Jejune Report on Endogenizing Government |
11. Normative Political EconomyFurther Consideration of Government and Distribution; Rent-seeking and Corruption; PART IV. ETHICS, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS; 12. The Principles of Public Policy; A Résumé of Parts I, II, and III; The Philosophical Framework; The Scale of Government Expenditure; The Boundaries of Public Policy; References; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Subjects; B; C; D; E; G; J; P; Q; R; S; U; V; W |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book studies the interfaces of ethics, economics, and politics. Public policy issues involve all three of these subjects. Although it may be seen as suggesting the nucleus of a joint university course, the book is accessible to and should interest all those concerned with political decisions. Any such decision needs a criterion for judging whether one action or outcome is better than another. Even a dictator must to some extent be concerned about the economic elfare of thecitizens; and a democratic government more so. But how is a person's economic welfare to be judged? Furthermore, any p |
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