{"product_id":"just-results-ralph-d-ellis-9780878406678","title":"Just Results: Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJust Results\u003c\/i\u003e, Ralph E. 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 policymaking. By introducing a justice factor-a quantitative measure for social values-Ellis opens the door for more balanced policy decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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. \u003ci\u003eJust Results\u003c\/i\u003e is a stimulating and highly applicable book that will be of great interest to philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts and planners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph D. Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0878406670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780878406678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.71d","brand":"Ralph D. Ellis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45065008939263,"sku":"9780878406678","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d80074c7-97ea-4ddb-afce-17f84d701e26.jpg?v=1712125391","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-results-ralph-d-ellis-9780878406678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}