Ethics out of Economics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Broome (0000-0002-9421-889X, University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Ethics Out of Economics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511605888 |
| OpenAlex | W4233855419 |
| Open Library | OL34443040M |
| ISBN | 9780511605888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 81 |
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.
Applied ethics · Economic methodology · Economics · Epistemology · Microeconomics · Moral philosophy · Philosophy and economics · Positive economics · Preference · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Value of life · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Engineering · Mathematics · Philosophy
An Actualist Explanation of the Procreation Asymmetry
Risk, Death, and Well-Being
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
Contractarian theory, deliberative democracy and general agreement
Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives
Lessons for Ethics From Economics?
Weighing Lives
The common good
Justice and Democracy
On Parity and the Intuition of Neutrality
Justice, democracy and public goods
Global Labor Justice and the Limits of Economic Analysis
Gene Editing, Identity and Benefit
Practical Reasoning as Figuring Out What is Best
Spectrum arguments are incredible
Person-affecting views and saturating counterpart relations
The Value of a Life-Year and the Intuition of Universality
Consequentialism about Meaning in Life
Does “Better Than” Have a Common Scale
"Playing God"
Prismal View of Ethics
A Fission Problem for Person-Affecting Views
The Interpersonal Comparative View of Welfare
Misfortune and Missing Out
Can We Measure the Badness of Death for the Person who Dies
Measuring Social Welfare by Proximity to an Optimum Population
Better than nothing
The Welfare Diffusion Objection to Prioritarianism
Sources of transitivity
Quantity, quality, equality
A behavioural money-pump argument for completeness
Explaining Harm
Incommensurability, the sequence argument, and the Pareto principle
The procreative asymmetry and the impossibility of elusive permission
Real world theory, complacency, and aspiration
Respect for others' risk attitudes and the long‐run future
Aggregation and the Structure of Value
The argument from small improvement is a red herring
Libertarian Paternalism And Susan Hurley's political philosophy
Intrapersonal Arguments for the Repugnant Conclusion
Asymmetries of Value-Based Reasons
The relationship between national income and health
Samaritanism and Civil Disobedience
A Defence of the Asymmetry in Population Ethics
Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis
How Should Death Be Taken into Account in Welfare Assessments
Values in Climate Ethics
Death is a Welfare Issue
The Constitution of the Not-For-Profit Organisation
Efficiency, entitlements and deservingness
Regarding Optimum Population
Arguing for Majority Rule
Economics and Ethics under the Same Umbrella
Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered
The Dual Reason-Giving Force of Welfare
The Impotence of the Value Pump
Comparative Harm, Creation and Death
The Asymmetry
Violations of normative invariance
Population Ethics and Different‐Number‐Based Imprecision
Ethics, Economics, and Politics
The antipaternalist psychology of William James
Asymmetries in the Value of Existence
In a democracy, what should a healthcare system do? A dilemma for public policymakers
Social bias, not time bias
Do markets foster selfishness
The Essence of Structural Irrationality
Money Pumps, Incompleteness, and Indeterminacy
Assessing Risky Social Situations
Death as a fact of life
Risky Business Nuclear Workers, Ethics, and the Market-Efficiency Argument
Is the Right prior to the Good
A triviality result for the “Desire by Necessity” thesis
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value
Leading with ethics, aiming for policy
A Dominance Argument Against Incompleteness
Evaluating Devolution in Wales
Towards a critique of the concepts of solidarity and discrimination as applied in inter-temporal analyses of the so-called global problems
Choice under description
The economic costs of military conflict
Fittingness, Value, and Trans-World Attitudes
| Unique citing works | 81 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,24 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |