Ethics, economics, and politics : principles of public policy
Publisher description: Little offers a new defence of a rule-based utilitarianism as a basis for assessing the role of the State and explains how the three disciplines of philosophy, economics and politics can be integrated to provide guidance on issues of public policy
xvi, 162 pages ; 22 cm
9780199257041, 9780199268726, 0199257043, 019926872X
49959322
I: Economics and philosophy
1. Personal utility and welfare
2. Collective utility and welfare
3. Welfare economics
II: Politics and philosophy
4. The role of the state
5. Utilitarianism: theory and applications
6. Utilitarianism, justice, and equality
7. Contractarianism
8. Communitarianism
III: Economics and politics
9. Games, conventions, and public goods
10. Positive political economy
Normative political economy
IV: Ethics, economics, and politics
12. The principles of public policy