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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Ethical Judgments | |
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Faith and Human Reason | |
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The Structure of Ethical Judgments | |
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Casuistry | |
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Ethics And Economics | |
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Definitions | |
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Private Ethical Norms and Rational Analysis | |
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Schools of Economics | |
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Approximating the Real World | |
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Status Quaestionis Or What Is At Issue? | |
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The Correct Level Of Abstraction | |
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How Economics Abstracts from the Real World | |
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How Ethics Abstracts from the Real World | |
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Contrast In Methodologies | |
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Economics as a Quasi-Science | |
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Ethics and Experience | |
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Dialectical Reasoning | |
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Economic Facts, Economic Models, And Ethical Principles | |
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Politics | |
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Fundamental Values | |
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Economic Lacunae | |
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Ethical Systems | |
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Values | |
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Fundamental Values | |
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Seven Fundamental Values | |
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Private and Public Knowledge and Truth | |
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Acting Against a Fundamental Value | |
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Four Personal Principles of Justice | |
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Other Values and Traditions | |
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Observations About Certain Fundamental Values | |
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Objections | |
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Human Nature | |
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Hierarchy Within Each Fundamental Value | |
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Values In A Pluralist Society | |
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Ordinary Economic Decisions And The Fundamental Values | |
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Fundamental Values By Tradition Or Assumption | |
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Principles of Justice I: Efficiency, Subsidiarity, and Freedom | |
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Implications Of Practical Reasonableness | |
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The Principle of Efficiency | |
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The Principle of Subsidiarity | |
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The Family | |
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Choosing a Life Plan | |
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Emphasizing Certain Fundamental Values | |
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Free Choice | |
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Required Goods and the Noncontrary Principle | |
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Criteria For Ethically Responsible Production | |
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Connectedness | |
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Common Understandings and Individual Conscience | |
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The Principle of Freedom | |
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Principles of Justice II: Distribution, Responsibility, and Impartiality | |
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The Principle Of Distribution | |
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The Rawlsian Approach | |
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Arguments Against Redistribution | |
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The Economy as a Fair Game | |
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Arguments for Redistribution | |
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Objectivity And Subjectivity | |
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The Principle of Relatedness | |
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The Principle of Impartiality | |
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The Six Social Principles Of Justice | |
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Too Many Principles Of Justice? | |
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The Ethics of Maximizing Behavior | |
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The Fundamental Theorem Of Welfare Economics | |
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Efficiency as Defined by Economists | |
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The Fundamental Theorem in a Graph | |
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Ethical Implications Of Maximizing Behavior | |
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Profit Maximization | |
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Utility Maximization | |
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Cutthroat Competition | |
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Greed, Envy, and the Desire for Status | |
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Greed And Envy | |
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Status | |
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Macrostatus and Microstatus | |
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The Economic and Ethical Significance of Status | |
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The Prisoner's Dilemma And Status | |
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The Traditional Prisoner's Dilemma | |
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The Dilemma Caused by Status and Envy | |
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Conclusion | |
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Institutions | |
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The Neoclassical System | |
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Competing Moral Traditions | |
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Modulating Desires | |
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Tempering Maximization Of Profits And Personal Welfare | |
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Pareto Optimality in a Diagram | |
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Neoclassical Utility and the Fundamental Values: A Mathematical Comparison | |
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Notes | |
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Notes For Chapter 1 | |
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Notes For Chapter 2 | |
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Notes For Chapter 3 | |
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Notes For Chapter 4 | |
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Notes For Chapter 5 | |
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Notes For Chapter 6 | |
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Notes For Chapter 7 | |
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Notes For Chapter 8 | |
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Notes For Chapter 9 | |
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Notes For Appendix A | |
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Notes For Appendix B | |
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Bibliography | |