There is a moral argument for effectiveness research (Kass 2001), and by extension for methodological research that aims to enhance the validity of effectiveness data by eliminating or controlling biases.
Each are convinced of their own moral superiority and effectiveness, and the two sides do not talk to each other, often not even within the same organisation.
But we have to admit that Mr Clinton has preserved much more moral authority and effectiveness in office than ever seemed possible.
We investigate significant elements and consequences of the IMF's bailout policies and implementation approaches such as bailout effectiveness, moral hazard, conditionality, leadership, governance and the sustainability of IMF policy.
"There are, to be sure, good moral and cost-effectiveness arguments for scaling back prisoner amenities and services," he wrote.
In an essay called "The Moral Imperative Towards Cost Effectiveness," Ord poses the example of helping the blind.
He shares neither Bentham's reduction of the good life to the pleasurable life nor Bentham's optimism about the likely effectiveness, for moral or hedonic purposes, of even much-reformed governments.
The second, one that featured prominently in yesterday's speech on economic inequality, is to emphasize the long-standing roots -- as well as the moral superiority and greater effectiveness -- of a common good-centered, progressive economic philosophy.
So has America's reputation in the Islamic world, both for effectiveness and for moral probity.If Mr Bush had meanwhile been making progress elsewhere in the Middle East, such mistakes might have been neutralised.
I'm glad that Yoo is able to make that claim in a credible way because it moves the torture issue away from technical issues of effectiveness to the moral realm, where the matter of torture should always have been discussed and decided.
