V C Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5737778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | V C Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | V C |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH V C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scarcity and the Concepts of Ethics
Moral philosophers have often felt the need of a concept which would cover all those cases where we are prevented from achieving our ends through no fault of our own: a criterion for saying when failure is not blameworthy. The deontologists thought we were not to blame for actions done in genuine ignorance of the facts. Kant declared in a famous passage that we were not morally responsible for failures due to the “niggardliness of stepmother natu…
Leisure and International Trade
Uncertainty and Business Decisions
On Descriptions of Consumers' Behaviour
'indifference' is a psychological term referring to a state of mind. If we have to imagine that indifference curves are to be drawn up in the above manner,' we cannot escape having a subjective interpretation of the system; for to say that one is indifferent as to whether one has A or B is the same as to say that one would find A or B equally satisfactory. We have seen that such an interpretation is absurd; therefore the word 'indifference' must …
The Development of Economic Thought
On Descriptions of Consumers' Behaviour
'indifference' is a psychological term referring to a state of mind. If we have to imagine that indifference curves are to be drawn up in the above manner,' we cannot escape having a subjective interpretation of the system; for to say that one is indifferent as to whether one has A or B is the same as to say that one would find A or B equally satisfactory. We have seen that such an interpretation is absurd; therefore the word 'indifference' must …
The Development of Economic Thought
On Descriptions of Consumers' Behaviour
'indifference' is a psychological term referring to a state of mind. If we have to imagine that indifference curves are to be drawn up in the above manner,' we cannot escape having a subjective interpretation of the system; for to say that one is indifferent as to whether one has A or B is the same as to say that one would find A or B equally satisfactory. We have seen that such an interpretation is absurd; therefore the word 'indifference' must …
Uncertainty and Business Decisions
Leisure and International Trade
Scarcity and the Concepts of Ethics
Moral philosophers have often felt the need of a concept which would cover all those cases where we are prevented from achieving our ends through no fault of our own: a criterion for saying when failure is not blameworthy. The deontologists thought we were not to blame for actions done in genuine ignorance of the facts. Kant declared in a famous passage that we were not morally responsible for failures due to the “niggardliness of stepmother natu…
Economics (5 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Positive economics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Blame (1 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (1 works)