Just Results Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis

Name: Just Results Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis
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ISBN: 9780878406678

ISBN-10: 0878406670

ISBN-13: 9780878406678

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ralph D. Ellis

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes



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


Notes



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


A Mathematical Model for the Effect of Necessity/nonnecessity on Quantitative Decision Principles


Conclusion



The Problem of Empirical Uncertainties


How Scientific Uncertainties Inhibit Government Intervention


Incorporating Justice into a Consequentialist Approach


References


Index