Capabilities and happiness /

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Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
Description:	vii, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Economics -- Sociological aspects. Happiness. Happiness -- Economic aspects. Economics -- Sociological aspects. Happiness. Happiness -- Economic aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7543034

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Varying Form of Title:	Capabilities & happiness
Other authors / contributors:	Bruni, Luigino, 1966- Comim, Flavio. Pugno, Maurizio.
ISBN:	9780199532148 (hbk.) 0199532141 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 important indicator for well-being, and the utility function as the formal device for positive and normative analysis. However, this approach to well-being has been questioned for being seriously limited and other approaches have arisen. The capability approach to well-being, which has been developed during the last two decades by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, and the Happiness Approach to well-being, championed by Richard Easterlin, both provide an alternative. Both approaches come from different traditions and have developed independently, but nevertheless aim to overcome the rigid boundaries of the conventional economic approach to well-being. Given these common aims, it is surprising that little comparative work has been undertaken across these approaches. This book aims to correct this by providing the reader with contributions from leading names associated with both approaches, as well as contributions which evaluate the approaches and contrast one with the other" -- from book jacket.

Table of Contents:

The economics of happiness and capability / Amartya Sen
Life cycle happiness and its sources : why psychology and economics need each other / Richard A. Easterlin
In defense of happiness : why policymakers should care about subjective well-being / Pelin Kesebir and Ed Diener
Some insights on development from the economics of happiness / Carol Graham
Back to Aristotle? Happiness, eduaimonia, and relational goods / Luigino Bruni
Capabilities and happiness : overcoming the informational apartheid in the asessment of human well-being / Flavio Comim
The division of labor between the capability and the happiness perspectives / Johannes Hirata
Self-determination theory and the explanatory role of psychological needs in human well-being / Maarten Vansteenkiste, Richard M. Ryan, and Edward L. Deci
Capabilities, the self, and well-being / Maurizio Pugno
Subjective measures of agency / Sabina Alkire
The philosophical foundations of subjective measures of well-being / Erik Angner
Capability, happiness, and opportunity / Robert Sugden.

Capabilities and happiness /

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