Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew D Adler |
| ISBN: | 9780195384994 0195384997 |
| OCLC Number: | 717302950 |
| Description: | xx, 635 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preliminaries: morality, consequentialism, welfarism -- The SWF approach and its competitors -- Well-being and interpersonal comparisons -- Estimating utilities -- The case for a continuous prioritarian SWF -- Lifetime prioritarianism -- Ranking actions: prioritarianism under uncertainty -- Next steps. |
| Responsibility: | Matthew D. Adler. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
... a new and refreshing take on the subject of fair distribution... an invaluable contribution to an ongoing dialogue that is critically important to sustain and nourish. Efthymios Athanasiou, New Economic School, Moscow In an impressive feat of interdisciplinary scholarship, Professor Adler begins by situating his argument within moral philosophy, then lays out a generic welfarist decisionmaking architecture, specifies his preferred SWF formulation, argues that SWF should be preferred to all other welfarist analyses, and considers ways to extend SWF to account for intertemporality and personal responsibility. Harvard Law Review Read more...
