| Description |
vii, 215 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| Contents |
The Value Component of Policy Analysis -- Policy Opinions and Value Opinions -- Prima Facie Values and Value Conflicts -- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Values -- Five Basic Types of Value Systems -- Why There Is No 'Incommensurable Pluralism' of Value Systems -- Is the Value of Cultural Traditions Intrinsic or Extrinsic? -- The Psychological Difficulty of Introspectively Distinguishing Intrinsic from Extrinsic Values -- Crucial Problems with Utilitarian Decision Principles -- Extreme Utilitarianism -- Rule Utilitarianism -- Crucial Problems with Rights-Based Decision Principles -- Positive Law and Natural Law: In What Sense Do Rights "Trump" Beneficial Consequences? -- Kant, Gewirth, and Nozick: Rights and Duties as Mandatory Rather than Merely Beneficial -- Frankena and Rawls: The Need for a Commensurability of Justice and Utility -- Toward a Nonutilitarian Consequentialist Concept of Distributive Justice -- The Effect of Diminishing Marginal Utility -- Nonutilitarian Consequentialist Distributive Justice and the Utility-Justice Conflict -- The Problem of Individual Differences in the Rate of Diminishing Marginal Utility -- A Method for Quantifying Distributive Justice -- Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Fails: The Distinction Between Necessary and Less-Necessary Benefits -- Measuring the Degree of Necessity -- The "Wealth Effect" in Occupational Risk-Aversion Studies as a Measure of the Rate of Diminishing Marginal Utility and Thus of the 'Degree of Necessity' of Both Priced and Unpriced Values. |
| Subject |
Policy sciences -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Political ethics.
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Policy sciences -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01068810
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Political ethics. (OCoLC)fst01069286
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Beleidswetenschap.
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Politieke ethiek.
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Politische Ethik (DE-588)4129503-1
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| Indexed Term |
Policy sciences Moral and ethical aspects |
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Political ethics |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Ellis, Ralph D. Just results. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)606944716 |
| ISBN |
0878406662 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780878406661 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0878406670 (paper) |
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9780878406678 (paper) |
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