Capabilities and Happiness.
Luigino. Bruni
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (361 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Economics of Happiness and Capability -- 2. Life Cycle Happiness and Its Sources: Why Psychology and Economics Need Each Other -- 3. In Defense of Happiness: Why Policymakers Should Care about Subjective Well-Being -- 4. Some Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness -- 5. Back to Aristotle? Happiness, Eudaimonia, and Relational Goods -- 6. Capabilities and Happiness: Overcoming the Informational Apartheid in the Assessment of Human Well-Being -- 7. The Division of Labor between the Capability and the Happiness Perspectives -- 8. Self-Determination Theory and the Explanatory Role of Psychological Needs in Human Well-Being -- 9. Capabilities, the Self, and Well-Being -- 10. Subjective Measures of Agency -- 11. The Philosophical Foundations of Subjective Measures of Well-Being -- 12. Capability, Happiness, and Opportunity -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.. - Approaches to well-being have been hotly debated across the social sciences, with most challenging the conventional economic approach which uses income as a key indicator of happiness. This volume compares and contrasts two such approaches, the Capability and Happiness Approach, via a series of interdisciplinary papers from top names in the field.
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| ISBN | 9780191559716
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