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SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION: POSITIVE AND NORMATIVE ECONOMICS Graaff,
Graaff, J. de V. Theoretical Welfare Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1967 [Held by Library]
Hausman, D. M. and McPherson, M.S, Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006 [Held by Library]
Little, I.M.D. Ethics, economics, and politics : principles of public policy, 2002. Note: Available electronically [Held by Library]
Little, I.M.D. A critique of welfare economics, 2nd Edition, Clarendon Press, 1957. Note: Chapter V [Held by Library]
Mishan, E. J., Introduction to Normative Economics, OUP,1981, chs. 1 and2
SECTION 2. ETHICAL THEORIES
Hausman, Daniel M, and McPherson, Michael S, Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006 [Held by Library]
Little, Ian Malcolm David, Ethics, economics, and politics : principles of public policy, 2002. Note: Read part 1 especially [Held by Library]
Plant, Raymond, Modern political thought, Blackwell, 1991 [Held by Library]
[Rawls, John, A theory of justice, Oxford University Press, 1972 [Held by Library]
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Shaw, William H., Barry, Vincent E, Moral issues in business, 9th Edition, Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. Note: Read extract from this [Held by Library]
Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary political philosophy : an introduction, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2002 [Held by Library]
SECTION 3. PARETO OPTIMALITY: CHOICE AND WELFARE
Alder, Matthew, D., Cost-benefit analysis : legal, economic, and philosophical perspectives, London : University of Chicago Press, 2001
Broome, John, Ethics out of economics, 1999. Note: Introduction and chapter 2 : [Held by Library]
Little, Ian Malcolm David, A critique of welfare economics, 2nd Edition, Clarendon Press, 1957. Note: Chapter V [Held by Library]
Little, Ian Malcolm David, Ethics, economics, and politics : principles of public policy, OUP, 2002. Note: Read part 1 especially [Held by Library]
Sen, Amartya Kumar, On ethics and economics, Basil Blackwell, 1988. Note: Pages 31-39 [Held by Library]
SECTION 4. EQUALITY
Hausman, Daniel M, and McPherson, Michael S, Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006 [Held by Library]
Also look up on line the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, e.g. on’ equality ‘or ‘distributive justice' :
Sen, Amartya Kumar, Inequality Re-examined, 1992. Note: Read extract [Held by Library]
Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary political philosophy : an introduction, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2002 [Held by Library]
SECTION 5. INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Gardiner, S, "Ethics and global climate change" in Ethics, 114, 2004, pages 555-600 [Held by Library]
Hausman, Daniel M, and McPherson, Michael S, Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006 [Held by Library]
Joshi, V and Skidelsky, R, One World in The New York review of books, New York Review, Inc.], 2004, pages 19-20. Note: Book review [Held by Library]
Shrader-Frechette, K. S, Environmental justice : creating equality, reclaiming democracy, Oxford University Press, 2002 [Held by Library]
Singer, Peter, One world : the ethics of globalization, Yale University Press, 2002 [Held by Library]
Shue, Henry, "Global environment and international inequality" in International affairs, 75(3), 1999, pages 531-545 [Held by Library]
Beckerman, Wilfred,and Pasek, Joanna, Justice, posterity, and the environment, OUP, 2001. Note: Chapters 10 and 11 [Held by Library]
SECTION 6. INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE
Beckerman, Wilfred, and Pasek, Joanna, Justice, posterity, and the environment, OUP, 2001. Note: Chapters 2 and 3 [Held by Library]
De George, R, "The Environment, Rights. and Future Generations" in Ethics and problems of the 21st century by Goodpaster, K.E and Sayre, K.M, University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, pages 157-165 [Held by Library]
Kavka, G, "The Futurity Problem" in Responsibilities to future generations : environmental ethics by Partridge, Ernest, Prometheus Books, 1981 [Held by Library]
Partridge, E, Future generations
Partridge, E, On the Rights of Future Generations
Partridge, E, Posterity and the strains of commitment
Pasek, Joanna, "The Identity Problem" in Environmental policy and "the identity problem" by Pasek, Joanna, CSERGE, 1993, pages 1-7. Note: Off-Print in Teaching Collection (Economics / C45 Ethics and Applied Economics) [Held by Library]
SECTION 7. DISCOUNTING
Stern, N. H, The economics of climate change : the Stern review, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Note: Read chapter 2 : Also available via the Web [Held by Library]
Beckerman, W, and Hepburn, C. Ethics of the Discount Rate in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change,in World economics, 8(4), Jan-March 2007.
Broome, J., Counting the cost of global warming, White Horse Press, 1992. Note: Chapter 3 [Held by Library]
Weitzman, M.L., The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, in Journal of Economic Literature, 45(3), Sept, 2007
Dasgupta, P., Comments on the Stern Review’s Economics of Climate Change, in National Institute Economic Review, Jan. 2007, pp4-7
Schelling, T., Intergenerational Discounting, in Energy Policy, 23(4-5), 1995
Arrow, K, "Discounting and intergenerational equity" in Discounting and Intergenerational Equity by Portney, Paul R and Weyant, John P, Resources for the Future, 1999. Note:Not held in library : Click on SFX link to search COPAC for further information
SECTION 8. ‘THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS’
Layard, P. R. G, Happiness : lessons from a new science, Allen Lane, 2005. Note: Also available online [Held by Library]
Kenny, A, and Kenny Ch., Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility, St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Imprint Academic 2006
SECTION 9. VALUE OF LIFE
Broome, John, Ethics out of economics, 1999. Note: Introduction and chapter 2 : [and read extract Held by Library]
Mishan, E. J, Cost-benefit analysis., 5th Edition, Routledge, 2007. Note: Read extract [Held by Library]
Lukes, Steven, "The value of life" in Ethics, rationality and economic behaviour by Farina, F and Hahn, F and Vannucci Collection (Economics / C45 Ethics and Applied Economics) [Held by Library]
Shrader-Frechette, K. S, Environmental justice : creating equality, reclaiming democracy, Oxford University Press, 2002 [Held by Library]
Hargreaves Heap, S. et al.,The theory of choice, 1992. Note: Read extract [Held by Library]
SECTION 10. OTHER READINGS
Anderson, Elizabeth, Value in ethics and economics, Harvard University Press, 1993. Note: Read extract from this [Held by Library]
Barry, Brian, Justice as Impartiality, 1995. Note: Read extract [Held by Library]