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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Amartya Sen: The Economics of Happiness and Capability
- 2: Richard Easterlin: Life Cycle Happiness and Its Sources: Why Psychology and Economics Need Each Other
- 3: Ed Diener and Pelin Kesebir: In Defence of Happiness: Why Policymakers Should Care About Subjective Well-Being
- 4: Carol Graham: Some Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness
- 5: Luigino Bruni: Back to Aristotle? Happiness, Eudaimonia and Relational Goods
- 6: Flavio Comim: Capabilities and Happiness: Potential Synergies
- 7: Johannes Hirata: The Division of Labour Between The Capability And The Happiness Perspective
- 8: Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan, and Maarten Vansteenkiste: Self-Determination Theory and the Explanatory Role of Psychological Needs In Human Well-Being
- 9: Carol D. Ryff and Burton H. Singer: Know Thyself and Become What You Are: A Eudaimonic Approach To Psychological Well-Being
- 10: Maurizio Pugno: Capabilities, the Self, and Well-Being
- 11: Sabina Alkire: Subjective Quantitative Indicators of Human Agency
- 12: Erik Angner: The Philosophical Foundations of Subjective Measures Of Well-Being
- 13: Robert Sugden: Capability, Happiness And Opportunity
