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A rare combination of theory and practice that expands the assumptions and methodology of policy analysis while it moves the debate over consequentialist ethics beyond utility and market preferences to a new level of sophistication. A truly elegant policy argument that should be required reading for students, scholars, and practitioners alike. -- John Martin Gillroy, MacArthur Professor of Environmental Studies, Bucknell University

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In this creative and ambitious study, Ellis seeks to reconcile the considerations of justice ... and utility... This is a vigorously transdisciplinary work that speaks to specialists in a range of fields, including applied ethics, moral and political philosophy, risk analysis, and legal history. Religious Studies Review