Weighing Lives

by JohnBroome (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $144.80

  How should we weigh lives? This book develops a theoretical basis for answering this practical question. It examines many of the issues of contemporary moral theory: the nature of consequentialism and teleology; the transitivity, continuity, and vagueness of betterness; the quantitative conception of wellbeing; and others.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $38.04

  How should we weigh lives? This book develops a theoretical basis for answering this practical question. Using some of the precise methods of economic theory (accessible without mathematical expertise), its conclusions are significant for political theorists and economists, as well as for philosophers, and anyone concerned with the value of life.