I: Economics and philosophy -- 1. Personal utility and welfare -- 2. Collective utility and welfare -- 3. Welfare economics -- II: Politics and philosophy -- 4. The role of the state -- 5. Utilitarianism: theory and applications -- 6. Utilitarianism, justice, and equality -- 7. Contractarianism -- 8. Communitarianism -- III: Economics and politics -- 9. Games, conventions, and public goods -- 10. Positive political economy -- Normative political economy -- IV: Ethics, economics, and politics -- 12. The principles of public policy
Summary
Publisher description: Little offers a new defence of a rule-based utilitarianism as a basis for assessing the role of the State and explains how the three disiplines of philosophy, economics and politics can be integrated to provide guidance on issues of public policy
