Capabilities and happiness
By: edited by Luigino Bruni, Flavio Comim, Maurizio Pugno
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199532148
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Welbevinden; Economische aspecten; Geluk (gevoel); Economics; Economic aspects; Happiness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economics of happiness and capability / Amartya Sen; title: Life cycle happiness and its sources : why psychology and economics need each other / Richard A. Easterlin; title: In defense of happiness : why policymakers should care about subjective well-being / Pelin Kesebir and Ed Diener; title: Some insights on development from the economics of happiness / Carol Graham; title: Back to Aristotle? Happiness, eduaimonia, and relational goods / Luigino Bruni; title: Capabilities and happiness : overcoming the informational apartheid in the asessment of human well-being / Flavio Comim; title: The division of labor between the capability and the happiness perspectives / Johannes Hirata; title: Self-determination theory and the explanatory role of psychological needs in human well-being / Maarten Vansteenkiste, Richard M. Ryan, and Edward L. Deci; title: Capabilities, the self, and well-being / Maurizio Pugno; title: Subjective measures of agency / Sabina Alkire; title: The philosophical foundations of subjective measures of well-being / Erik Angner; title: Capability, happiness, and opportunity / Robert Sugden.