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Capabilities and happiness /
Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions. However, approaches on how to define, measure, evaluate, and promote well-being differ widely. The conventional economic approach takes income (or the power to acquire market goods) as the most i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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-Being9. 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.