Public Policy: Why Ethics Matters

Abstract

Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. This book examines how markets generate unequal outcomes and asks whether such outcomes are morally acceptable, what the requirements of distributive justice are, and to what extent governments should redistribute income. It also focuses on the ethics of climate change and addresses global poverty as a critically important ethical imperative.