TY - BOOK AU - Beckerman,Wilfred TI - Economics as applied ethics: fact and value in economic policy SN - 9783319503196 AV - HB99.3 U1 - 330.1556 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Economics KW - Welfare economics KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Value KW - Management science KW - Economic theory KW - Finance, Public KW - Political economy KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Business & Economics KW - Theory KW - Public Finance KW - Political Science KW - Economic Conditions KW - Economic theory & philosophy KW - bicssc KW - Public finance KW - Electronic books N1 - Academic; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) UR - https://online.fliphtml5.com/lluzx/zqem/ ER -