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Ethics out of Economics.
John Broome's work has always combined sophisticated economic and philosophical expertise, and Ethics Out of Economics brings together some of his most important essays, augmented with a new introduction. This book examines some fundamental practical issues, and shows powerfully how economic me...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: ethics out of economics; 2 'Utility'; 3 Extended preferences; 4 Discounting the future; 5 Can a Humean be moderate?; 6 Bolker-Jeffrey expected utility theory and axiomatic utilitarianism; 7 Fairness; 8 Is incommensurability vagueness?; 9 Incommensurable values; 10 Goodness is reducible to betterness: the evil of death is the value of life; 11 Trying to value a life; 12 Structured and unstructured valuation; 13 Qalys; 14 The value of living; 15 The value of a person; Notes; Bibliography; Index.