Ethics, Economics, and Politics: Principles of Public PolicyThis book studies the interfaces of ethics, economics, and politics. Public policy issues involve all three of these subjects. Although it may be seen as suggesting the nucleus of a joint university course, the book is accessible to and should interest all those concerned with political decisions. Any such decision needs a criterion for judging whether one action or outcome is better than another. Even a dictator must to some extent be concerned about the economic elfare of thecitizens; and a democratic government more so. But how is a person's economic welfare to be judged? Furthermore, any political decision affects the economic welfare of different people differently. How then is the welfare of a community to be judged? This is an ethical question. Underlying any coherentpublic policy there must be a relevant moral code. |
Contents
PART II POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY | 25 |
PART III ECONOMICS AND POLITICS | 87 |
PART IV ETHICS ECONOMICS AND POLITICS | 129 |
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Ethics, Economics, and Politics: Principles of Public Policy Ian Malcolm David Little No preview available - 2003 |
Ethics, Economics and Politics: Principles of Public Policy Ian Malcolm David Little No preview available - 2002 |
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