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What is The Ethics and the Economics of Minimalist Government about?
Timothy Roth shows that social welfare theory, as currently defended by welfare economists and policymakers, is based on a confused and untenable moral theory, is incompatible with a rights-based legal order and is bound to promote unjust and arbitrary redistributions. By advocating a return to the Kantian conception of the moral agent, Roth shows the way to a normative economics that harmonizes with both intuitive morality and the American legal and constitutional tradition.' - Roger Scruton, Writer and Philosopher, formerly University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University The moral imperative of individual autonomy, embodied in the Kantian-Rawlsian perspective on social order, cannot be reconciled with the utilitarian presuppositions that inform normative applications of modern economics. This book exposes the contradictions that are present when the basic philosophical foundations are ignored, a stance that is, unfortunately, characteristic of much modern discourse as well as political practice.' - James M. Buchanan, George Mason University and Nobel Laureate At a time when technical economics dominates the thinking of much of the profession, it is important
Who reads The Ethics and the Economics of Minimalist Government?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Timothy P. Roth
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing; E. Elgar
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781843765592
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Philosophy, Political Science
