Tag: brain

26 Mar 2008

Utilitarians are Brain Damaged

Well, that is one tack at least. I don’t consider myself one, though. I believe that once a framework is in place, utilitarian considerations can get us considerably far along in judgment. Anyway, this is amusing:
 
 
Are economists brain damaged?
 
Many economists espouse utilitarianism as a superior ethical framework to proposed alternatives. A paper in Nature magazine [...]