Overview
- Treats Economics as an applied science
- Breaks down, clearly, an analysis of economic policy issues to what are matters of fact and matters of values
- Highlights the main value judgements in the analysis of what policies contribute to society's economic welfare
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Principles
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wilfred Beckerman is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University, England, and is now an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. He has been a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; the Economic Advisor to the President of the British Board of Trade; and Head of Division at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. He has also been a Visiting Professor at universities in France and the U.S.A., and a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Labour Organization. His books include An Introduction to National Income Analysis; In Defence of Economic Growth; Measures of Leisure, Equality and Welfare; Poverty and the Impact of Income Maintenance Programs; Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes; Poverty and Social Security in Britain since 1961 [with Stephen Clark]; and Justice, Posterity, and the Environment [with JoannaPasek].
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics as Applied Ethics
Book Subtitle: Fact and Value in Economic Policy
Authors: Wilfred Beckerman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50319-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50318-9Published: 01 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50319-6Published: 26 May 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 297
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Public Economics, International Political Economy