Synopses & Reviews
Ethics Out of Economics is the collected essays of John Broome on economics and ethical theory.
Review
"...these are wonderful essays. They serve to lift the matters they deal with to a new plane of conceptual clarity and analytical rigor-so that even where one fins oneself not agreeing with the argument, or just puzzled by it, there is satifaction in knowing what exactly it is that one disagrees about, or where exactly one's puzzlement lies. It is sheer pleasure to see Broome's mind at work here. There is something clean and fresh about his approach...this set of essays is elegant, engaging, and teeming with philosophical interest. They deserve very close reading and will, I believe, handsomely repay the effort involved." Ethics
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: ethics out of economics; Part I. Preference and Value: 2. 'Utility'; 3. Extended preferences; 4. Discounting the future; 5. Can a Humean be moderate?; Part II. The Structure of Good: 6. Bolker-Jeffrey expected utility theory and axiomatic utilitarianism; 7. Fairness; 8. Is incommensurability vagueness?; 9. Incommensurable values; 10. Goodness is reducible to betterness: the evil of death is the value of life; Part III. The Value of Life: 11. Trying to value a life; 12. Structured and unstructured valuation; 13. Qalys; 14. The value of living; 15. The value of a person.