Ethics out of Economics

Many economic problems are also ethical problems: should we value economic equality? how much should we care about preserving the environment? how should medical resources be divided between saving life and enhancing life? This book examines some of the practical issues that lie between economics and ethics, and shows how utility theory can contribute to ethics. John Broome's work has, unusually, combined sophisticated economic and philosophical expertise, and Ethics Out of Economics brings together some of his most important essays, augmented with an updated introduction. The first group of essays deals with the relation between preference and value, the second with various questions about the formal structure of good, and the concluding section with the value of life. This work is of interest and importance for both economists and philosophers, and shows powerfully how economic methods can contribute to moral philosophy.

ISBN 0521644917   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780521644914 (What's this?)   Pages 276 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 410 Format Paperback   Published in Cambridge Publication date 18 Feb 1999   Height (mm) 228 Non-book description viii, 267 p. :   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress HB72 .B758 1999   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 330.01   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
1		Introduction: ethics out of economics		1
Pt. I		Preference and value		17
2		'Utility'		19
3		Extended preferences		29
4		Discounting the future		44
5		Can a Humean be moderate?		68
Pt. II		The structure of good		89
6		Bolker-Jeffrey expected utility theory and axiomatic utilitarianism		91
7		Fairness		111
8		Is incommensurability vagueness?		123
9		Incommensurable values		145
10		Goodness is reducible to betterness: the evil of death is the value of life		162
Pt. III		The value of life		175
11		Trying to value a life		177
12		Structured and unstructured valuation		183
13		Qalys		196
14		The value of living		214
15		The value of a person		228
		Notes		243
		Bibliography		256
		Index		263

'Ethics out of Economics is a collection of some of the most important papers by John Broome published, with one exception, over the last decade.' Mind

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Version	Price	Published	Edition
Hardback	£78.00	1999	illustrated edition
Electronic Book	£110.00