Economics as Applied Ethics

1. Introduction
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Part I. Basic Principles

2. Preview
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3. The Main Concepts
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4. Fact and Value in Personal Choice
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5. How to Make ‘Bad’ Choices
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6. Fact and Value in Public Policy: Three Examples
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7. From Economic ‘Efficiency’ to Economic Welfare
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8. The ‘Mindless Society’
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9. Utilitarianism: The Search for an Overriding Value
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10. Utilitarianism and Its Constraints
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Part II. Applications

11. GDP and Friends
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12. Well-Being and Happiness
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13. The Discount Rate
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14. The Price of Life
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15. Equality: ‘Fact’ or ‘Value’?
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16. Equality of What?
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17. The Boundary in Space: International Justice
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18. The Boundary in Time: Intergenerational Justice
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19. The Role of Welfare Economics
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Keywords: Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Public Economics, Political Economy