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Ethics out of economics /

"Many economic problems are also ethical problems: should we value equality? How much should we care about preserving the environment? How should medical resources be divided between saving life and enhancing life? It also turns out that many of the formal techniques of economics can do importa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Broome, John, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction : ethics out of economics
  • Part I : Preference and value
  • 2. 'Utility'
  • 3. Extended preferences
  • 4. Discounting the future
  • 5. Can a Humean be moderate?
  • Part II : The structure of good
  • 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
  • Part III : 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.