Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I. ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY -- 1. Personal Utility and Welfare -- Expected Utility and Risk -- Risk and Fluctuations -- Risk and Equality -- Utility and Positive Economics -- Utility and Normative Economics -- 2. Collective Utility and Welfare -- 3. Welfare Economics -- Theoretical Welfare Economics -- Applied Welfare Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- PART II. POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY -- 4. The Role of the State -- Limitations of State Authority -- Individual Rights -- Social Contract and Property -- Property and Property Rights -- 5. Utilitarianism: Theory and Applications -- Utility and the Value of Life -- The State and Population Policy -- What Constituency Now?-On Citizens and Foreigners -- The State and Saving for the Future -- 6. Utilitarianism, Justice, and Equality -- Utilitarianism and Equality -- Rawls's Theory of Justice -- The Meaning of Justice -- Distributive Justice -- Interstate Distributive Justice -- Dworkin and Equalizing Resources -- The Measurement of Equality -- Summary -- 7. Contractarianism -- 8. Communitarianism -- PART III. ECONOMICS AND POLITICS -- Introduction -- 9. Games, Conventions, and Public Goods -- Games -- Conventions -- Public Goods and the State -- 10. Positive Political Economy -- Endogenizing Government -- Democratic and Authoritarian Government -- Collective Choice and Voting -- Economic Policy under Relatively Autonomous Government -- Economic Policy under Democracy -- Modelling Political Economy Explanations of Policies and Trends -- The Political Economy of Protection in Industrialized Countries -- The Growth of Government in Industrialized Countries -- Protection and Import Substitution in Developing Countries -- Policy Reform in Developing Countries -- An Interim Jejune Report on Endogenizing Government.

11. Normative Political Economy -- Further Consideration of Government and Distribution -- Rent-seeking and Corruption -- PART IV. ETHICS, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS -- 12. The Principles of Public Policy -- A Résumé of Parts I, II, and III -- The Philosophical Framework -- The Scale of Government Expenditure -- The Boundaries of Public Policy -- References -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- J -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W.