Elizabeth Anderson - Value in Ethics and Economics

Elizabeth Anderson - Value in Ethics and Economics
Harvard University Press, 1993
245 str.
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stanje: dobro, podpis, zapiski.

1. A Pluralist Theory of Value. 1.1. A Rational Attitude Theory of Value. 1.2. Ideals and Self-Assessment. 1.3. How Goods Differ in Kind (I): Different Modes of Valuation. 1.4. How Goods Differ in Kind (II): Social Relations of Realization -- 2. An Expressive Theory of Rational Action. 2.1. Value and Rational Action. 2.2. The Framing of Decisions. 2.3. The Extrinsic Value of States of Affairs. 2.4. Consequentialism. 2.5. Practical Reason and the Unity of the Self -- 3. Pluralism and Incommensurable Goods. 3.1. The Advantages of Consequentialism. 3.2. A Pragmatic Theory of Comparative Value Judgments. 3.3. Incommensurable Goods. 3.4. Rational Choice among Incommensurable Goods -- 4. Self-Understanding, the Hierarchy of Values, and Moral Constraints. 4.1. The Test of Self-Understanding. 4.2. The Hierarchy of Values. 4.3. Agent-Centered Restrictions. 4.4. Hybrid Consequentialism. 4.5. A Self-Effacing Theory of Practical Reason? -- 5. Criticism, Justification, and Common Sense. 5.1. A Pragmatic Account of Objectivity. 5.2. The Thick Conceptual Structure of the Space of Reasons. 5.3. How Common Sense Can Be Self-Critical. 5.4. Why We Should Ignore Skeptical Challenges to Common Sense -- 6. Monistic Theories of Value. 6.1. Monism. 6.2. Moore's Aesthetic Monism. 6.3. Hedonism. 6.4. Rational Desire Theory -- 7. The Ethical Limitations of the Market. 7.1. Pluralism, Freedom, and Liberal Politics. 7.2. The Ideals and Social Relations of the Modern Market. 7.3. Civil Society and the Market. 7.4. Personal Relations and the Market. 7.5. Political Goods and the Market. 7.6. The Limitations of Market Ideologies -- 8. Is Women's Labor a Commodity? 8.1. The Case of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood. 8.2. Children as Commodities. 8.3. Women's Labor as a Commodity. 8.4. Contract Pregnancy and the Status of Women. 8.5. Contract Pregnancy, Freedom, and the Law -- 9. Cost-Benefit Analysis, Safety, and Environment Quality. 9.1. Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Form of Commodification. 9.2. Autonomy, Labor Markets, and the Value of Life. 9.3. Citizens, Consumers, and the Value of the Environment. 9.4. Toward Democratic Alternatives to Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost–benefit analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories. This account of the plurality of values thus offers a new approach, beyond welfare economics and traditional theories of justice, for assessing the ethical limitations of the market. In this light, Anderson discusses several contemporary controversies involving the proper scope of the market, including commercial surrogate motherhood, privatization of public services, and the application of cost–benefit analysis to issues of environmental protection.

Praise
Anderson is anxious to combat what she sees as a tendency for commercial values to invade areas of human life where they do not belong… A useful contribution to debate about the proper scope of the market.

—Hugo Dixon, Financial Times

Not everything is a commodity, insists Anderson, and her brief should shake up social science technocrats.

—Philadelphia Inquirer

The book is rich in both argument and application.

—Alan Hamlin, Times Higher Education Supplement

In this rich and insightful book Elizabeth Anderson develops an original account of value and rational action and then employs this account to address the pragmatic political question of what the proper range of the market should be. Anderson’s principal targets are consequentialism, monism and the crude ‘economistic’ reasoning which underpins much contemporary social policy… This is an important book… For anyone interested in political philosophy this is essential reading.

—A. J. Walsh, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Author
Elizabeth Anderson is John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies; John Rawls Collegiate Professor; and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.


Nonfiction, Philosophy, 0674931904

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