Product Description This collection of papers discusses critical issues that have often been at the center of social debates in recent years. Economists and philosophers discuss such issues as the limitations of markets as an instrument of decision-making in a society, globalization and culture, the foundationalprinciples for public policy, the criteria for the allocation of human organs, and the paradox of scarcity despite affluence in modern societies. About the Author PATTANAIK, PRASANTA K & CULLENBERG, STEPHEN