Ralph D. Ellis Just Results (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Just ResultsCondition: NewSubtitle: Ethical Foundations for Policy AnalysisISBN-10: 0878406670EAN: 9780878406678ISBN: 9780878406678Publisher: Georgetown University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/1998Description: In "Just Results", Ralph E. Ellis provides an authoritative solution to one of the major problems in the field of public policy. Until now, analysts and planners have had no practical or accurate means of incorporating qualitative social concerns into the traditional quantitative formulas used in policymaking. By introducing a justice factor - a quantitative measure for social values - Ellis opens the door for more balanced policy decisions. Using concrete, real-world examples, Ellis shows how policy analysts can better account for the use value - or practical measurable utility - of universally agreed-upon social benefits such as life, health, safety, and environmental preservation when making cost-benefit analyses. In this way, policymakers, and by extension, society as a whole, can avoid making unjust tradeoffs between important social values and comparatively frivolous economic benefits. Drawing on philosophical works on justice from Kant through John Rawls, this book is informed by a theoretical defense of distributive justice that emphasizes diminishing marginal utility, thus favoring the poor."Just Results" is a stimulating and highly applicable book that will be of great interest to philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts and planners.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Ralph D. EllisGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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