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Ethics as social science : the moral philosophy of social cooperation
Yeager, Leland B. - 2001
1. Ethics and economics -- 2. Some fundamentals -- 3. Origins of ethics -- 4. The case for indirect utilitarianism -- 5 …. What counts as utility? -- 6. The alleged problem of aggregation -- 7. Is utilitarianism immoral? -- 8. Altruism and self …-interest -- 9. Duty and universalizability -- 10. Rivals of utilitarianism -- 11. Law, government, and policy -- 12. Utilitarianism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851632
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Taxation and the promotion of human happiness : an essay
Norman, George Warde - 2009
utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474056
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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850972
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The economics of social protection
Söderström, Lars - 2008
This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851435
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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The history of economic analysis : selected essays
Creedy, John - 1998
This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473846
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Economics, welfare policy, and the history of economic thought : essays in honour of Arnold Heertje
Fase, M. M. G. (ed.); Kanning, W. (ed.);  … - 1999
theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and … policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473888
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473918
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Morality, political economy and American constitutionalism
Roth, Timothy P. - 2007
liberalism and the economic theory to which it is conjoined - social welfare theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420044
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Equality, rights, and the autonomous self : toward a conservative economics
Roth, Timothy P. - 2004
political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points … grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474146