Well-being and fair distribution
Subtitle: beyond cost-benefit analysis
By: Matthew D. Adler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
ISBN-13: 9780195384994
Subjects: Welfare economics; Well-being; Public welfare; Distributive justice
Description: A comprehensive philosophically grounded argument for the use of social welfare functions as a framework for governmental policy analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries: morality, consequentialism, welfarism; title: The SWF approach and its competitors; title: Well-being and interpersonal comparisons; title: Estimating utilities; title: The case for a continuous prioritarian SWF; title: Lifetime prioritarianism; title: Ranking actions: prioritarianism under uncertainty; title: Next steps.