This lecture is meant to create another bridge between the three disciplines involved in PPE. However, it is also open to non-PPE students! We will introduce central topics of PPE (and beyond) such as rationality, game theory, egalitarianism, utilitarianism, ethical limits to markets, discounting and climate change, justice, free riding, well-being, liberalism, neoliberalism etc. The idea of the lecture is to contextualize these topics, to offer some history and also, if necessary, to offer possibilities for critique. The perspective adopted is mostly philosophical but political science and economics will have their word. Also, we will always attempt to discuss theoretical concepts with reference to concrete examples or case studies. 

The central text for the lecture is:

Daniel Hausman, Michael McPherson, Debra Satz, Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy (Cambridge University Press 2017, 3rd edition).

Other main references will be Elizabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard University Press 1993), Ariel Rubinstein, Economic Fables (Open Book 2012), and Brian Barry, Sociologists, Economists and Democracy (MacMillan 1970).