Economics as applied ethics : fact and value in economic policy - Beckerman, Wilfred (Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Part 1. Basic Principles -- 1. Preview -- 2. The Main Concepts -- 3. Fact and Value in Personal Choice -- 4. How to Make 'Bad' Choices -- 5. Fact and Value in Economic Policy: three examples -- 6. From Economic 'Efficiency' to Economic Welfare -- 7. The 'Social Welfare Function' -- 8. The 'Mindless' Society -- 9. Utilitarianism: The Search For A Single Over-riding Value -- 10 Constraints on Utilitarianism -- Part 2. Applications -- 11. GDP and Friends -- 12. Happiness -- 13. The Most Important Price: The Discount Rate -- 14. The Price of life -- 15. Equality: Fact or Value -- 16. Equality of What? -- 17. The Boundary of Society in Space -- Annex to Chapter 17: How to share out equitably he burden of combating climate change -- 18. The Boundary of Society in Time -- 19. Overview: The Role of Welfare Economics.
Academic
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 8, 2017).
Keywords: Economics; Welfare economics; Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Value; Management science; Economic theory; Finance, Public; Political economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Value; Welfare economics; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Theory; Business & Economics -- Public Finance; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Economic theory & philosophy; Public finance; Political economy; Electronic books