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Robert E. Goodin, James Mahmud Rice, Antti Parpo, Lina Eriksson - Discretionary Time, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Discretionary Time

A New Measure of Freedom

Av Robert E. Goodin, James Mahmud Rice, Antti Parpo, Lina Eriksson

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A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms of finance alone; how much time we have matters just as much as how much money. The authors of this book have developed a novel way to measure 'discretionary time': time which is free to spend as one pleases. Exploring data from the US, Australia, Germany, France, Sweden and Finland, they show that temporal autonomy varies substantially across different countries and under different living conditions. By calibrating how much control people have over their time, and how much they could have under alternative welfare, gender or household arrangements, this book offers a new perspective for comparative cross-national enquiries into the temporal aspects of human welfare.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-02-21
  • Mått: 160 x 235 x 32 mm
  • Vikt: 898 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 482
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521882989
  • Utmärkelser: Stein Rokkan Prize, International Social Science Council 2009
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Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. James Mahmud Rice is an ARC Research Associate in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. Antti Parpo is Administrator of Somero Social & Health Services, Finland. Lina Eriksson is an ARC Research Associate in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University.

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'Only a group of scholars led by Bob Goodin could be sufficiently intellectually daring to replace money with leisure time as the metric of welfare achievement. In an era in which 'time to stand and stare' becomes ever scarcer, this is a book on the impacts of public policy which really matters.' Francis G. Castles, University of Edinburgh

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