LEADER 03398nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910782659403321 005 20230721004749.0 010 $a1-383-04449-X 010 $a1-281-92540-3 010 $a9786611925406 010 $a0-19-155971-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000707378 035 $a(EBL)415142 035 $a(OCoLC)300701704 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000117515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12002352 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10049529 035 $a(PQKB)11036581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415142 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266479 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL192540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415142 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000707378 100 $a20090212d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCapabilities and happiness$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Luigino Bruni, Flavio Comim, and Maurizio Pugno 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-953214-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a8. 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 330 $aApproaches 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 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 606 $aHappiness 606 $aHappiness$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aHappiness. 615 0$aHappiness$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a306.3 676 $a330.1 686 $a83.05$2bcl 701 $aBruni$b Luigino$f1966-$0141795 701 $aComim$b Flavio$0312946 701 $aPugno$b Maurizio$0121446 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782659403321 996 $aCapabilities and happiness$93828681 997 $aUNINA