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22Cost-value analysis in health care: Making sense out of QALYs, Erik Nord (review)Economics and Philosophy 16 (2): 333-378. 2000.
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67Many questions concerning health involve values. How well is a health system performing? How should resources be allocated between the health system and other uses or among competing healthrelated uses? How should the costs of health services be distributed among members of a population? Who among those in need of transplants should receive scarce organs? What is the best way to treat particular patients? Although many kinds of expertise bear on these questions, values play a large role in answe…Read more
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215Hedonism and welfare economicsEconomics and Philosophy 26 (3): 321-344. 2010.This essay criticizes the proposal recently defended by a number of prominent economists that welfare economics be redirected away from the satisfaction of people's preferences and toward making people happy instead. Although information about happiness may sometimes be of use, the notion of happiness is sufficiently ambiguous and the objections to identifying welfare with happiness are sufficiently serious that welfare economists are better off using preference satisfaction as a measure of welf…Read more
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47Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis want to redirect egalitarianism away from redistribution of income and toward redistribution of assets, particularly productive assets. <1> Their main reason, apart from the fact that income redistribution is so obviously dead in the political waters, is that income redistribution lowers productivity and competitiveness, while asset redistribution raises these, and in the long run the welfare of the worst-off depends more on increasing productivity than it does o…Read more
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1015 Tendencies, laws, and the composition of economic causesIn Uskali Mäki (ed.), The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 293. 2001.
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1Evaluating social policyIn Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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41Protecting groups from genetic researchBioethics 22 (3). 2008.ABSTRACT Genetics research, like research in sociology and anthropology, creates risks for groups from which research subjects are drawn. This paper considers what sort of protection for groups from the risks of genetics research should be provided and by whom. The paper categorizes harms by distinguishing process‐related from outcome‐related harms and by distinguishing two kinds of group harms. It argues that calls for community engagement are justified with respect to some kinds of harms, but …Read more
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10The inexact and separate philosophy of economics: an interview with Daniel HausmanErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 4 (1): 67. 2011.
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1Capital, Profits, and Prices: An Essay in the Philosophy of EconomicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (4): 387-392. 1983.
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15Liberalism, Welfare Economics, and Freedom*: DANIEL M. HAUSMANSocial Philosophy and Policy 10 (2): 172-197. 1993.With the collapse of the centrally controlled economies and the authoritarian governments of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics, political leaders are, with appreciable public support, espousing “liberal” economic and political transformations—the reinstitution of markets, the securing of civil and political rights, and the establishment of representative governments. But those supporting reform have many aims, and the liberalism to which they look for political guidance is not an un…Read more
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107Sympathy, commitment, and preferenceEconomics and Philosophy 21 (1): 33-50. 2005.While very much in Sen's camp in rejecting revealed preference theory and emphasizing the complexity, incompleteness, and context dependence of preference and the intellectual costs of supposing that all the factors influencing choice can be captured by a single notion of preference, this essay contests his view that economists should recognize multiple notions of preference. It argues that Sen's concerns are better served by embracing a single conception of preference and insisting on the need …Read more
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33Is falsificationism unpractised or unpractisable?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3): 313-319. 1985.
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327Preference satisfaction and welfare economicsEconomics and Philosophy 25 (1): 1-25. 2009.The tenuous claims of cost-benefit analysis to guide policy so as to promote welfare turn on measuring welfare by preference satisfaction and taking willingness-to-pay to indicate preferences. Yet it is obvious that people's preferences are not always self-interested and that false beliefs may lead people to prefer what is worse for them even when people are self-interested. So welfare is not preference satisfaction, and hence it appears that cost-benefit analysis and welfare economics in genera…Read more
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodProfessor (Part-time)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |