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- catalog abstract ""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 important work in ethical theory. In particular, utility theory can help analyse the structure of good. Ethics out of Economics examines some of the theoretical and practical issues that lie between economics and ethics, and especially aims to show how utility theory can contribute to ethics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11047400.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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 important work in ethical theory. In particular, utility theory can help analyse the structure of good. Ethics out of Economics examines some of the theoretical and practical issues that lie between economics and ethics, and especially aims to show how utility theory can contribute to ethics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-262) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "viii, 267 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521642752".
- catalog identifier "0521644917 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "330 21".
- catalog subject "Economics Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "HB72 .B758 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Ethics out of economics / John Broome.".
- catalog type "text".