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UNINA9910782659403321 |
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Titolo |
Capabilities and happiness [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Luigino Bruni, Flavio Comim, and Maurizio Pugno |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-04449-X |
1-281-92540-3 |
9786611925406 |
0-19-155971-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BruniLuigino <1966-> |
ComimFlavio |
PugnoMaurizio |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics - Sociological aspects |
Happiness |
Happiness - Economic aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. - ;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 |
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