Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy - Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock, and David Eng Part One: Ethical Foundations 2 Behavioral Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy: Paving the road to freedom or serfdom? - Morris Altman 3 Go and Do Likewise: The parable of the Good Samaritan and the challenge of public ethics - Chris Marshall 4 Who Then Is My Neighbor? Ethical decision making around our international obligations - contribution of human rights theory and practice - Margaret Bedggood 5 Justice as Collective Capability - Karen Baehler 6 Considerations of Distributive Justice in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation - Frieder Lempp, Lucas Kengmana, and Jonathan Boston Part Two: Ethics and Policy Making 7 Beyond Serving a Purpose: Additional ethical focuses for public policy agents - Vanessa Scholes 8 Ethics of Not-Very-Targeted Government Interventions - TM Wilkinson 9 Making Fair Funding Decisions for High-Cost Health Care: The case of Herceptin in New Zealand - Elizabeth Fenton 10 Can Policy Be Ethical Without Consumer Input?- Hilary Stace and Martin Sullivan Part Three: Sustainability and Progress 11 The Ethics of a Sustainable Economy: Implications for public policy - Robert Howell and Wayne Cartwright 12 Measuring New Zealand's Progress Using a Sustainable Development Approach - Rachael Milicich 13 Cooperative Environmental Management: Taking care of New Zealand's unique natural resources in more effective ways - Karlheinz Knickel, Guy Salmon, and Susanne von Muenchhausen 14 Equity and Sustainable Development - Paul Dalziel and Caroline Saunders 15 Rethinking Progress: Evaluation of the Wellington Regional Genuine Progress Index - Aaron Packard and Ralph Chapman 16 Recent Challenges to the Ethics Underlying Official Statistics in New Zealand - Sharleen Forbes, Vince Galvin, Andrew Hunter, Paul Maxwell, and Whetu Wereta

About the Author

Terence Crawford, is an actor, playwright, teacher and academic. A graduate of NIDA, he is considered one of Australias most experienced and esteemed acting teachers, having worked with many of the actors he has interviewed. His plays, including: Pushing Up Daisies, Autumn, Loves Triumph, have been produced by Griffin, New England Theatre Company, Theatre of Image and Sydney Theatre Company. He has had work produced on radio and television, and his short fiction has been published.