Brad Hooker's book is excellent. It offers a novel theory. It is well argued and fun to read. I highly recommend it to my colleagues. I also think that it would be a very good book to use in an upper-division ethical theory course, or a graduate course on ethical theory.

Julia Driver, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This book seems to me the best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories.

Derek Parfit, University of Oxford

All in all, Ideal Code, Real World is a truly first-rate work in moral philosophy. Hooker's writing is clear and succinct, and his argumentation is powerful. This book is a major contribution to normative moral theory, simply 'must' reading for anyone interested in ethics.

Mark Timmons, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

has the special virtue of being both intelligible to general readers and powerful enough to advance the subject for specialists... an indispensable resource for anyone seriously assessing the major theoretical alternatives in normative ethics.

Robert Audi, Utilitas

The book passes succinctly from meta-ethical innovations, through detailed comparisons with other major moral theories to a series of provocative real world applications... This is the best available interpretation of the collective strand of the Consequentialist tradition.

Tim Mulgan, Philosophical Quarterly

Hooker's book covers a lot of ground, and does so in a stimulating and often convincing way

THEORIA, A Swedish Journal of Philosophy

Scanlon did us a great service by articulating a contractualist conception of right and wrong and Hooker matches him in providing an up-to-date, up-to-the-mark version of the rule-consequentialist alternative

Philip Pettit, Times Literary Supplement

This is a lucidly written and skillfully argued book by a thoughtful, discerning, and fair-minded philosopher with an enviable command of the relevant literature. Anyone interested in consequentialism or, indeed, in ethical theory generally should read it

William Shaw, MIND