Synopses & Reviews
In Ethics, Economics, and Politics Ian Little returns to offer a new defence of a rule-based utilitarianism as a basis for assessing the role of the State. Lucidly and elegantly he explains how the three disciplines of philosophy, economics and politics can be integrated to provide guidance on issues of public policy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Economics and Philosophy
1. Personal Utility and Welfare
2. Collective Utility and Welfare
3. Welfare Economics
Part II: Politics and Philosophy
4. The Role of the State
5. Utilitarianism: Theory and Application
6. Utilitarianism: Justice and Equality
7. Contractarianism
8. Communitarianism
Part III: Economics and Politics
9. Games, Conventions, and Public Goods
10. Positive Political Economy
11. Normative Political Economy
Part IV: The Principles of Public Policy
12. The Principles of Public Policy