03375nam 2200649Ia 450 991045415540332120200520144314.01-281-92540-397866119254060-19-155971-7(CKB)1000000000707378(EBL)415142(OCoLC)300701704(SSID)ssj0000117515(PQKBManifestationID)12002352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117515(PQKBWorkID)10049529(PQKB)11036581(MiAaPQ)EBC415142(Au-PeEL)EBL415142(CaPaEBR)ebr10266479(CaONFJC)MIL192540(EXLCZ)99100000000070737820090212d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCapabilities and happiness[electronic resource] /edited by Luigino Bruni, Flavio Comim, and Maurizio PugnoOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (361 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-953214-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Perspectives8. 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; IndexApproaches 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 incomeEconomicsSociological aspectsHappinessHappinessEconomic aspectsElectronic books.EconomicsSociological aspects.Happiness.HappinessEconomic aspects.306.3330.1Bruni Luigino1966-141795Comim Flavio312946Pugno Maurizio121446MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454155403321Capabilities and happiness2098746UNINA