Well-Being and Fair Distribution

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-538499-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 656 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1139 g

In Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, author Matthew D. Adler provides readers with a comprehensive philosophically grounded argument for the use of social welfare functions as a framework for governmental policy analysis.

Well-Being and Fair Distribution addresses a range of relevant theoretical issues, including the possibility of an interpersonally comparable measure of well-being, or "utility" metric; the moral value of equality, and how that bears on the form of the social welfare function; social choice under uncertainty; and the possibility of integrating considerations of individual choice and responsibility into the social-welfare-function
framework. Adler's book also deals with issues of implementation, and explores how survey data and other sources of evidence might be used to calibrate both a utility metric and a social welfare function, and whether distributive goals are ever best pursued through regulation rather than the tax system. In working through this range of theoretical and practical
issues, Well-Being and Fair Distribution draws from a wide variety of literatures, including philosophical scholarship on equality, responsibility, the nature of well-being, and personal identity over time; the social choice literature within economics; applied economic literatures concerning the measurement of inequality and poverty; legal and policy-analysis scholarship on cost-benefit analysis, environmental justice, and the choice
between regulation and taxation; and the burgeoning field of "happiness studies."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adler

Adler, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1. Preliminaries: Morality, Consequentialism, Welfarism
Chapter 2. The SWF Approach and its Competitors
Chapter 3. Well-Being and Interpersonal Comparisons
Chapter 4. Estimating Utilities
Chapter 5. The Case for a Continuous Prioritarian SWF
Chapter 6. Lifetime Prioritarianism
Chapter 7. Ranking Actions: Prioritarianism under Uncertainty
Chapter 8. Next Steps

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew D. Adler is the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many articles on cost-benefit analysis, risk regulation, and equity.