Well-being and Fair Distribution - Beyond Cost-benefit Analysis

Zusatztext In an impressive feat of interdisciplinary scholarship, Professor Adler begins by situating his argument within moral philosophy, then lays out a generic welfarist decisionmaking architecture, specifies his preferred SWF formulation, argues that SWF should be preferred to all other welfarist analyses, and considers ways to extend SWF to account for intertemporality and personal responsibility. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Matthew Adler, Adler Matthew
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780195384994
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538499-4
• Pages: 560
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Général, dictionnaires; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies