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Matthew D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey - The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

Av Matthew D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey

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What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four Parts. Part I covers the full range of methodologies for evaluating governmental policy and assessing societal condition-including the leading approaches in current use by policymakers and academics, and emerging techniques. Part II focuses on the nature of well-being itself. What, indeed, constitutes an individual's welfare? What makes her life go better or worse? Part III addresses the measurement of well-being and the thorny topic of interpersonal comparisons. How can we construct a meaningful scale of individual welfare, which allows for comparisons of well-being levels and differences, both within one individual's life, and across lives? Finally, Part IV reviews the major challenges to designing governmental policy around individual well-being.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-06-16
  • Mått: 249 x 175 x 50 mm
  • Vikt: 1 746 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Oxford Handbooks
  • Antal sidor: 980
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780199325818
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Marc Fleurbaey is Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor of Public Affairs at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He has widely published in the field of welfare economics, social choice theory, and public economics.Matthew Adler is Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University. He works at the intersection of law, welfare economics, social choice theory, and normative ethics. Adler previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia.

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"In the first part of the 20th century, the early success of such macroeconomic indicators as gross domestic product to track the economy and devise interventions sparked a movement to broaden the measurement of societal performance to include many other aspects of life. Those discussions and investigations extended the concepts across many disciplines outside economics, including philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This handbook is an invaluable summary ofthis research. Featuring prominent scholars from throughout the world, it probes concepts, methodologies, and outcomes. It is sophisticated in its analysis and thorough in its coverage. Highlyrecommended." --CHOICE

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