Alfonso Salinas

The Market and Public Choices

An Ethical Assessment

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Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2003. This book assumes a viewpoint practically absent from contemporary economics by readdressing the original fundamental question of economics: how should we decide how scarce resources should be allocated among competing uses? By focusing on this question the book necessarily reconstitutes the link between ethics and economics. The book deals with a crucial topic: the moral assessment of the market mechanism as a tool for allocating scarce resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781138715400
• ISBN-10: 1138715409
• Artikelnr.: 58315737

Autorenporträt

Dr Alfonso Salinas is a Lecturer at the Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado in Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Moral Knowledge: The necessity and impossibility of a moral criterion
Two types of knowledge
The problem of social choice under a moral relativist framework
Knowledge and its limits
Appendix to chapter 4: Gödel's impossibility theorem
Morality: a history that writes itself
The development of moral knowledge: feelings, reason and free-will
Concluding remarks of part I. Moral Philosophy: Knowledge About Moral Knowledge: Introduction to part II
Ancient philosophy: outlining the groundwork
From the moral implications of 'the Other' to Kantian moral philosophy
Prudence, morality and feelings
Utilitarianism, consequentialism and pragmatism
Concluding remarks of part II. The Market, Moral Knowledge and the Allocation of Resources: Introduction to part III
The market and economic theories: from wealth to ophelimity
Efficiency
The insufficiency of efficiency
Using moral knowledge to assess the market's operation
Externalities
Concluding commentaries
Bibliography
Index of authors.