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Adler, Matthew

 
9780195384994: Well-being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-benefit Analysis
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ISBN 10 : 0195384997 ISBN 13 : 9780195384994
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2011

Synopsis

In Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, author Matthew D. Adler provides readers with a comprehensive philosophically grounded argument for the use of social welfare functions as a framework for governmental policy analysis.

Well-Being and Fair Distribution addresses a range of relevant theoretical issues, including the possibility of an interpersonally comparable measure of well-being, or "utility" metric; the moral value of equality, and how that bears on the form of the social welfare function; social choice under uncertainty; and the possibility of integrating considerations of individual choice and responsibility into the social-welfare-function framework. Adler's book also deals with issues of implementation, and explores how survey data and other sources of evidence might be used to calibrate both a utility metric and a social welfare function, and whether distributive goals are ever best pursued through regulation rather than the tax system. In working through this range of theoretical and practical issues, Well-Being and Fair Distribution draws from a wide variety of literatures, including philosophical scholarship on equality, responsibility, the nature of well-being, and personal identity over time; the social choice literature within economics; applied economic literatures concerning the measurement of inequality and poverty; legal and policy-analysis scholarship on cost-benefit analysis, environmental justice, and the choice between regulation and taxation; and the burgeoning field of "happiness studies."

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew D. Adler is the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many articles on cost-benefit analysis, risk regulation, and equity.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195384997
ISBN 13 
9780195384994
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
656
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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