In "Just Results", Ralph D. Ellis provides an authoritative
solution to one of the major problems in the field of public
policy. Until now, analysts and planners have had no practical or
accurate means of incorporating qualitative social concerns into
the traditional quantitative formulas used in policy making. By
introducing a justice factor -- a quantitative measure for social
values -- Ellis opens the door for more balanced policy decisions.
Using concrete, real-world examples, Ellis shows how policy
analysts can better account for the use value -- or practical
measurable utility -- of universally agreed-upon social benefits
such as life, health, safety, and environmental preservation when
making cost-benefit analyses. In this way, policymakers, and by
extension, society as a whole, can avoid making unjust tradeoffs
between important social values and comparatively frivolous
economic benefits.
Drawing on philosophical works on justice from Kant through John
Rawls, this book is informed by a theoretical defense of
distributive justice that emphasizes diminishing marginal utility,
thus favoring the poor. "Just Results" is a stimulating and highly
applicable book that will be of great interest to philosophers,
political scientists, policy analysts and planners.
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