The dog that doesn’t bark: animal interests in economics

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The dog that doesn’t bark: animal interests in economics

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Although animal welfare issues have become increasingly important to the economic fortunes of many producers, the interests of animals themselves are absent from standard economic analysis. By contrast, scholars from other disciplines such as philosophy and law have examined animal issues in considerable detail. This paper outlines a simple way of formally incorporating the insights of these disciplines within a traditional economics framework. If animals have economic standing, then current ...

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Research paper

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Date created

2008

Creator

Boyle, G.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2399

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animal interests / economic surplus / Fields of Research::340000 Economics::340200 Applied Economics

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