Ethics, Economics and Freedom The Failure of Consequentialist Social Welfare Theory |
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| Author:
| Roth, Timothy P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-1009-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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Outcomes-based, procedurally -detached social welfare theory is found to be indeterminate, irreconcilable with the moral force of rights, and non-accommodative of alternative understandings of justice. The author argues, therefore, for an explicitly normative, contractarian approach to economic theory and institutional appraisal.
Outcomes-based, procedurally -detached social welfare theory is found to be indeterminate, irreconcilable with the moral force of rights, and non-accommodative of alternative understandings of justice. The author argues, therefore, for an explicitly normative, contractarian approach to economic theory and institutional appraisal.