Moral Objectives, Rules, and the Forms of Social Change.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I: MORAL OBJECTIVES -- A: BASIC MORAL OBJECTIVES: NEEDS -- 1 Needs and Interests -- 2 Two Conceptions of Needs in Marx's Writings -- B: BASIC MORAL OBJECTIVES: PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITY -- 3 Diagnosis and Remedy in Marx's Doctrine of Alienation -- 4 The Meaning of Participation and of Demands for It -- 5 Work: A Cultural Ideal Ever More in Jeopardy -- C: BASIC MORAL OBJECTIVES: LIFE PLANS ANSWERING TO PERSONAL PREFERENCES -- 6 From Economics to Aesthetics: The Rectification of Preferences -- 7 Preferences Opposed to the Market: Grasshoppers vs Ants on Security, Inequality, and Justice -- D: JUSTICE AND THE COMMON GOOD -- 8 Liberalism, Statistics, and the Presuppositions of Utilitarianism -- 9 Justice and Injustice in Business -- 10 Making Justice Practical -- 11 The Common Good -- PART II: RULES -- 12 No Rules without Virtues -- No Virtues without Rules -- 13 How Do I Presuppose Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: The Relations of Regularities to Rules in Social Science -- PART III: THE FORMS OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- 14 Marxism and Technical Change: Nicely Told, but Not the Full Contradictory Story -- 15 Refinements of Culture in Large-Scale History -- 16 Scale, Combination, Opposition: A Rethinking of Incrementalism -- 17 Policy Formation with Issue Processing and Transformation of Issues -- BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1955-1997 -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Essays by David Braybrooke take up an assortment of practical concerns that ethics brings into politics: people's interests; needs along with preferences; work and commitment to work; participation in social life.

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