Much is made of the collapse of ideology in modern politics. So what guides policy if not an overarching idea? Evidence Based Policy focusses on the success of certain measures taken to achieve specific outcomes, but why should government be interested in these outcomes in the first place?
A philosophy which first became popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Utilitarianism in its various guises purports to provide a rational basis for moral action, both at an individual and a soci....
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