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Author: Juha Räikkä
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642383769
Size: 12.16 MB
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Release Date: 2013-05-13
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Adaptation And Autonomy Adaptive Preferences In Enhancing And Ending Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This volume gathers together previously unpublished articles focusing on the relationship between preference adaptation and autonomy in connection with human enhancement and in the end-of-life context. The value of individual autonomy is a cornerstone of liberal societies. While there are different conceptions of the notion, it is arguable that on any plausible understanding of individual autonomy an autonomous agent needs to take into account the conditions that circumscribe its actions. Yet it has also been suggested that allowing one’s options to affect one’s preferences threatens autonomy. While this phenomenon has received some attention in other areas of moral philosophy, it has seldom been considered in bioethics. This book combines for the first time the topics of preference adaptation, individual autonomy, and choosing to die or to enhance human capacities in a unique and comprehensive volume, filling an important knowledge gap in the contemporary bioethics literature.

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Author: Stuart J. Youngner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199974411
Size: 15.37 MB
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Release Date: 2016
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF The Oxford Handbook Of Ethics At The End Of Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

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Author: John K. Davis
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262347237
Size: 61.15 MB
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Release Date: 2018-08-21
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF New Methuselahs eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation. Life extension—slowing or halting human aging—is now being taken seriously by many scientists. Although no techniques to slow human aging yet exist, researchers have successfully slowed aging in yeast, mice, and fruit flies, and have determined that humans share aging-related genes with these species. In New Methuselahs, John Davis offers a philosophical discussion of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension. Why consider these issues now, before human life extension is a reality? Davis points out that, even today, we are making policy and funding decisions about human life extension research that have ethical implications. With New Methuselahs, he provides a comprehensive guide to these issues, offering policy recommendations and a qualified defense of life extension. After an overview of the ethics and science of life extension, Davis considers such issues as the desirability of extended life; whether refusing extended life is a form of suicide; the Malthusian threat of overpopulation; equal access to life extension; and life extension and the right against harm. In the end, Davis sides neither with those who argue that there are no moral objections to life enhancement nor with those who argue that the moral objections are so strong that we should never develop it. Davis argues that life extension is, on balance, a good thing and that we should fund life extension research aggressively, and he proposes a feasible and just policy for preventing an overpopulation crisis.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Kühler
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030567036
Size: 27.56 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-09-29
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Theories Of The Self And Autonomy In Medical Ethics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients’ autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions. These cases pose specific epistemic, normative, and practical problems, and the book elucidates the connection between the practical implications of the theoretical debate on respecting autonomy, on the one hand, and specific questions and challenges that arise in medical practice, on the other hand. Given that the idea of personal autonomy includes the notion of authenticity as one of its core components, the book explicitly includes discussions on underlying theories of the self. In doing so, it brings together original contributions and novel insights for “applied” scenarios based on interdisciplinary collaboration between German and Serbian scholars from philosophy, sociology, and law. It is of benefit to anyone cherishing autonomy in medical ethics and medical practice.

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Author: Guy Fletcher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317402642
Size: 23.87 MB
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Release Date: 2015-07-30
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Well Being eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists, psychologists and economists. Yet little is actually known about well-being and it is an idea that is often poorly articulated. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being provides a comprehensive, outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts: well-being in the history of philosophy current theories of well-being, including hedonism and perfectionism examples of well-being and its opposites, including friendship and virtue and pain and death theoretical issues, such as well-being and value, harm, identity and well-being and children well-being in moral and political philosophy well-being and related subjects, including law, economics and medicine. Essential reading for students and researchers in ethics and political philosophy, it is also an invaluable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology, politics and sociology.

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Author: Jason Hanna
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190877146
Size: 79.12 MB
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Release Date: 2018-09-21
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF In Our Best Interest eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When, if ever, is it permissible to intervene in a person's affairs for his or her own good? This, in essence, is the moral problem of paternalism. Many consider paternalism morally objectionable. In this book, Jason Hanna argues boldly for an alternative pro-paternalist view: that intervention is permissible so long as it serves the best interest of the person subject to it, without thereby wronging others. To Hanna, the moral debate over paternalism is most fundamentally a debate about the weight and relevance of a certain kind of reason or rationale for intervention. In arguing that paternalistic rationales provide valid and weighty reasons, Hanna considers the objections that paternalism is disrespectful, that it wrongly imposes values on people, that it violates individual rights, and that it is likely to be misapplied or abused. He argues that each of these objections fails to demonstrate that there is anything distinctively problematic about paternalism. Moreover, he attempts to situate pro-paternalism within a popular rights-based moral theory. Hanna shows that popular alternatives to pro-paternalism confront serious problems of their own, especially insofar as they attempt to distinguish permissible intervention on behalf of incompetent persons from impermissible intervention on behalf of competent adults. Although the book's central aim is to defend a moral view, it suggests how this view can be fruitfully applied in a number of real-world contexts.

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Book Detail:
Author: Travis Timmerman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000216748
Size: 31.73 MB
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Release Date: 2020-12-31
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Exploring The Philosophy Of Death And Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that are raised by the end of life. Included are many of the essential voices that have contributed to the philosophy of death and dying throughout history and in contemporary research. The 38 chapters in its nine sections contain classic texts (by authors such as Epicurus, Hume, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer) and new short argumentative essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by world-leading contemporary experts. Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying introduces students to both theoretical issues (whether we can survive death, whether death is truly bad for us, whether immortality would be desirable, etc.) and urgent practical issues (the ethics of suicide, the value of grief, the appropriate medical criteria for declaring death, etc.) raised by human mortality, enabling instructors to adapt it to a wide array of institutions and student audiences. As a pedagogical benefit, PowerPoints, discussion questions, and test questions for each chapter are included as online ancillary materials.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Cholbi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319220500
Size: 41.23 MB
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Release Date: 2015-08-20
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF New Directions In The Ethics Of Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part proposed for medical professionals and clinical ethics consultation in connection with assisted dying, relates the debate on assisted dying to questions about organ-donation and developments in medical technology, and demonstrates the significance of experimental philosophy in assessing questions of assisted dying. This book is ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and health care ethics.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hans Reinders
Publisher: Gompel&Svacina
ISBN: 9463711171
Size: 61.11 MB
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Release Date: 2019-09-06
Category: Medical
Language: nl
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Download PDF Kwaliteit Als Ervaring eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Het denken over kwaliteit in de langdurige zorg is aan het schuiven. De tijd van ‘meetbare kwaliteit’ lijkt voorbij. In plaats daarvan is ‘narratieve verantwoording’ in opmars. Hans Reinders onderzoekt deze verschuiving en het denken waarop ze berust. Uitgaande van de langdurige zorg voert hij een pleidooi voor kwaliteitsonderzoek niet ter verantwoording maar in dienst van de dagelijkse praktijk. “Kwaliteit als ervaring kan met recht het opus magnum van Hans Reinders worden genoemd. Decennia ervaring van de auteur komen samen in een boek dat leest als een reis. Of beter gezegd, een ontdekkingstocht naar waar het werkelijk om gaat in de langdurige zorg. Betekenis en zin geven aan verhalen van mensen. Weg met ‘de cliënt centraal’. Het gaat om mens-zijn en om de erkenning van individuele identiteit.” Laurent de Vries, bestuurder Viattence, organisatie voor ouderenzorg “In dit boek zet Hans Reinders ons aan het denken, allereerst door een gedegen methodische vergelijking van kwaliteitsmetingen passend bij de notie dat ‘kwaliteit van bestaan’ het voornaamste ijkpunt is in de langdurige zorg. Vervolgens door allen die betrokken zijn bij de langdurige zorg een spiegel voor te houden met zijn verslag van het narratieve verantwoordingsinstrument ‘beelden van kwaliteit’. Na het lezen van dit boek kun je niet meer kijken als daarvoor.” Marius Buiting, directeur Nederlandse Vereniging van Toezichthouders in de Zorginstellingen (NVTZ) “Kwaliteit van bestaan is een ervaringsbegrip, schrijft Hans Reinders. Het gaat er immers om hoe de cliënt de zorg beleeft, of de zorg aansluit op diens behoeften en verwachtingen. In zijn boek werkt Reinders dit uit voor de zorg aan mensen met een verstandelijke beperking, mensen met niet-aangeboren hersenletsel, en mensen met beperkingen als gevolg van ouderdom. Het boek zal zorgverleners aanspreken, omdat het ook raakt aan hun eigen verhaal.” Ronnie van Diemen, inspecteur-generaal Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd “Mijn complimenten voor dit mooie boek. Op dit boek hebben velen zitten wachten. Het zal aan een grote behoefte voldoen. Hans Reinders beschrijft op overtuigende wijze dat voor het bevorderen van kwaliteit van bestaan in de langdurige zorg de narratieve methode en de zelfreflecterende professional essentieel zijn.” Henk J. Smid, directeur van ZonMw

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Book Detail:
Author: Andrea Veltman
Publisher: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
ISBN: 0199969116
Size: 72.64 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2014
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Autonomy Oppression And Gender eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. These new essays examine philosophical issues at the intersection of feminism and autonomy studies. Are autonomy and independence useful goals for women and subordinate persons? Is autonomy possible in contexts of social subordination and oppression? Is the pursuit of desires that issue from patriarchal norms consistent with autonomous agency? How should we understand the concepts of relational autonomy and adaptive preferences? How do emotions and caring relate to autonomous deliberation? Contributors to this collection answer these and related questions.

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Book Detail:
Author: D. Clark
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137002778
Size: 66.28 MB
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Release Date: 2012-04-05
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Adaptation Poverty And Development eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jay Drydyk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317236106
Size: 19.14 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2018-07-16
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF Routledge Handbook Of Development Ethics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics provides readers with insight into the central questions of development ethics, the main approaches to answering them, and areas for future research. Over the past seventy years, it has been argued and increasingly accepted that worthwhile development cannot be reduced to economic growth. Rather, a number of other goals must be realised: • Enhancement of people's well-being • Equitable sharing in benefits of development • Empowerment to participate freely in development • Environmental sustainability • Promotion of human rights • Promotion of cultural freedom, consistent with human rights • Responsible conduct, including integrity over corruption Agreement that these are essential goals has also been accompanied by disagreements about how to conceptualize or apply them in different cases or contexts. Using these seven goals as an organizing principle, this handbook presents different approaches to achieving each one, drawing on academic literature, policy documents and practitioner experience. This international and multi-disciplinary handbook will be of great interest to development policy makers and program workers, students and scholars in development studies, public policy, international studies, applied ethics and other related disciplines.

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Book Detail:
Author: Serene J. Khader
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019977787X
Size: 33.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-09-08
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Adaptive Preferences And Women S Empowerment eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Khader offers a deliberative perfectionist approach to identifying and responding to adaptive preferences-- deprived people's preferences that perpetuate their deprivation. She argues that adaptive preferences are deficits in flourishing that are causally related to deprivation and claims that intervention aimed at transforming them is compatible with respect for persons and cultures.

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Book Detail:
Author: Marina A.L. Oshana
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135036101
Size: 77.72 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-11-13
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Personal Autonomy And Social Oppression eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rutger Claassen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108473261
Size: 29.95 MB
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Release Date: 2018-10-04
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Capabilities In A Just Society eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A new theory of social justice arguing that people have rights to the core human capabilities necessary for 'navigational agency'.

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Author: Svenja Springer
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
ISBN: 908686869X
Size: 20.24 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018-06-13
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Professionals In Food Chains eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Within the public debate surrounding food, people often contend that the key to meeting current challenges is changing consumer behaviour. Professionals and practitioners such as farmers, retailers, veterinarians, or researchers only occupy the limelight during media coverage of so-called ‘food scandals’. If we are to better understand and negotiate current and future problems in the food supply chain, it will be essential to pay more attention to the role and position of professionals involved. ‘Professionals in food chains’ addresses questions as: What are the main ethical challenges for professionals in the food supply chain? Who within this complex field holds responsibility for what? What does it mean for the food-related professions to operate in an atmosphere of immense social tension and high expectations? Which virtues are required to do a ‘good’ job? In brief: What can be said about the roles, responsibilities, and ethics of professionals across this dynamic field? This book brings together work by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, addressing a broad spectrum of topics pertaining to professionals in the food supply chain. Topics covered include general issues on professional roles and responsibility, sustainable food supply chains, novel approaches in food production systems, current food politics, the ethics of consumption, veterinary ethics, pedagogical/educational and research ethics, as well as aquacultural, agricultural, animal, and food ethics.

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Book Detail:
Author: John D. Arras
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136644849
Size: 57.56 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-12-05
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF The Routledge Companion To Bioethics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing technologies. Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic concern with social justice, population health, and public policy. While also covering more traditional topics, this volume fully captures this recent shift and foreshadows the resulting developments in bioethics. It highlights emerging issues such as climate change, transgender, and medical tourism, and re-examines enduring topics, such as autonomy, end-of-life care, and resource allocation.

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Book Detail:
Author: Martin Binder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136956174
Size: 33.14 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2010-05-04
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF Elements Of An Evolutionary Theory Of Welfare eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare. The traditional approach has assumed that the measuring rod for welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into question by pointing out the inconsistencies and context-dependencies of human behaviour. When preferences are no longer consistent, we have to ask whether a different measure for individual welfare can, and should, be found. This book goes beyond the level of preference and instead considers whether a hedonistic view of welfare represents a viable alternative, and what its normative implications are. Offering a welfare theory with stronger behavioural and evolutionary foundations, Binder follows a naturalistic methodology to examine the foundations of welfare, connecting the concept with a dynamic theory of preference learning, and providing a more realistic account of human behaviour. This book will be of interest to researchers and those working in the fields of welfare economics, behavioural and evolutionary economics.

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Book Detail:
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262538016
Size: 74.52 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-09-24
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Cost Benefit Revolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes. Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favor aggressive government intervention. Others don't feel the need for any sort of climate regulation. In The Cost-Benefit Revolution, Cass Sunstein argues our major disagreements really involve facts, not values. It follows that government policy should not be based on public opinion, intuitions, or pressure from interest groups, but on numbers—meaning careful consideration of costs and benefits. Will a policy save one life, or one thousand lives? Will it impose costs on consumers, and if so, will the costs be high or negligible? Will it hurt workers and small businesses, and, if so, precisely how much? As the Obama administration's “regulatory czar,” Sunstein knows his subject in both theory and practice. Drawing on behavioral economics and his well-known emphasis on “nudging,” he celebrates the cost-benefit revolution in policy making, tracing its defining moments in the Reagan, Clinton, and Obama administrations (and pondering its uncertain future in the Trump administration). He acknowledges that public officials often lack information about costs and benefits, and outlines state-of-the-art techniques for acquiring that information. Policies should make people's lives better. Quantitative cost-benefit analysis, Sunstein argues, is the best available method for making this happen—even if, in the future, new measures of human well-being, also explored in this book, may be better still.

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Book Detail:
Author: Greg Bognar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192646451
Size: 44.48 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2023-04-29
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Ageing Without Ageism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.

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