LEADER 04777nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910465749003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-926872-X 010 $a0-19-153140-5 010 $a1-281-93058-X 010 $a9786611930585 035 $a(CKB)2560000000293891 035 $a(EBL)694024 035 $a(OCoLC)310962105 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000086670 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11121522 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086670 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030626 035 $a(PQKB)11482851 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC694024 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL694024 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273128 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL193058 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000293891 100 $a20020601d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthics, economics, and politics$b[electronic resource] $eprinciples of public policy /$fI.M.D. Little 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (178 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-925704-3 311 $a0-19-160129-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a5. 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; 9. Games, Conventions, and Public Goods; Games; Conventions 327 $aPublic 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 327 $a11. 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 Re?sume? 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 330 $aThis 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 606 $aEconomics$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aEconomics$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aEconomics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 676 $a320/.6/01 700 $aLittle$b Ian Malcolm David$0142702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465749003321 996 $aEthics, economics, and politics$91895227 997 $aUNINA