IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/ecnphi/v30y2014i02p175-194_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Ethical Bases Of Public Policies: A Conceptual Framework

Author

Listed:
  • Pattanaik, Prasanta K.
  • Xu, Yongsheng

Abstract

This paper develops a conceptual framework, which can accommodate a wide range of value judgements used in ethical evaluations of extended social states and which can be used to differentiate different categories of value judgements by referring to the type of information on which they may be based. The notions of consequentialism, non-consequentialism, exclusive focus on personal well-being, exclusive focus on utility, etc. are conceptualized in operational ways in the framework. The framework and the discussion of different types of ethical criteria that may be used in evaluating extended social states contribute to conceptual clarity about the ethical bases of public policies.

Suggested Citation

  • Pattanaik, Prasanta K. & Xu, Yongsheng, 2014. "The Ethical Bases Of Public Policies: A Conceptual Framework," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(2), pages 175-194, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:30:y:2014:i:02:p:175-194_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0266267114000157/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Prasanta K. Pattanaik & Yongsheng Xu, 2020. "Institutions and their ethical evaluation," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 54(2), pages 293-310, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:30:y:2014:i:02:p:175-194_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/eap .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.