Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy
Author: Daniel Hausman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107158311

This book shows how careful attention to moral reasoning can enrich economic understanding and clarify the importance and the limits of an economic analysis of policy problems.

Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy

Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy
Author: Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521558501

Discusses how standard economics may be improved by an understanding of moral philosophy.

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy
Author: Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2006
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 9780511146640

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy.

Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale

Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale
Author: Debra Satz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019989261X

"The noted philosopher Debra Satz takes a skeptical view of markets, pointing out that free markets are not always a force for good. The idea of free exchange of child labor, human organs, reproductive services, weapons, life saving medicines, and addcitive drugs, strike many as toxic to human values. She asks: What considerations ought to guide the debates about such markets?"--Provided by publisher.

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy
Author: Daniel Hausman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316943259

This book shows through argument and numerous policy-related examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores the idea of rationality and its connections to ethics, arguing that when they defend their formal model of rationality, most economists implicitly espouse contestable moral principles. Part II addresses the nature and measurement of welfare, utilitarianism and cost-benefit analysis. Part III discusses freedom, rights, equality, and justice - moral notions that are relevant to evaluating policies, but which have played little if any role in conventional welfare economics. Finally, Part IV explores work in social choice theory and game theory that is relevant to moral decision making. Each chapter includes recommended reading and discussion questions.

The Moral Economy

The Moral Economy
Author: Samuel Bowles
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2016-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0300221088

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.

The Philosophy of Economics

The Philosophy of Economics
Author: Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521883504

This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.

Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy

Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Author: Charles K. Wilber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780847687909

Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them. But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword ? or the staff ? to the children of the Lance. They are the Second Generation. An all-new audiobook edition of a classic Dragonlance novel. This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and Dragons of Summer Flame. While detailing their adventures, The Second Generation also sets up key events and characters in future Dragonlance novels.

Ethics and Public Policy

Ethics and Public Policy
Author: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136721789

Ethics and Public Policy:€A Philosophical Inquiry€is the first book to subject important and controversial areas of public policy, such as drugs, health and€gambling€to philosophical scrutiny.