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Happiness Quantified
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Happiness Quantified

Using German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, the authors cover a wide range of topics.

Happiness Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Happiness Economics

HAPPINESS ECONOMICS deals with the concept of happiness in economics. Most economists until recently were very suspicious about happiness economics and the common opinion was that happiness is not empirically measurable. Actually there is now a growing body of serious economists who are willing, either reluctantly or wholeheartedly, to include happiness economics as a part of economic science. For a better understanding of happiness economics, the authors examine the viewpoint of mainstream economics in the introduction. Section 2 starts by considering the methods of analysis in happiness economics. Section 3 considers life satisfaction (or happiness), section 4 considers domain satisfaction...

The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of information and offers criteria to identify and rank the issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. This method which combines the so-called 'hedonic price' and 'life satisfaction' approaches to value public goods was tested in pilot studies in six Latin American cities: Bogot , Buenos Aires, Lima, Medell n, Montevideo, and San Jos of Costa Rica. It provides valuable insights to address key question...

Freedom's Mirror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Freedom's Mirror

Studies the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred while slaves in Haiti successfully overthrew the institution.

Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 786

Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book addresses key questions about whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education have been widening in a consistent fashion across 30 rich nations, and whether this is exacerbating social problems and undermining the healthy functioning of democratic processes.

Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpret...

Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-02-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries.

The Economics of Happiness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

The Economics of Happiness

This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from Richard Easterlin’s groundbreaking work on happiness and economics. Contributions in the book show the relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to main areas, such as the relationship between income and happiness, the relationship between economic growth and well-being, conceptions of progress and development, design and evaluation of policies for well-being, and the use of happiness research to address welfare economics issues. This book is unique in the sense that it gathers contributions from senior and top researchers in the economics of happiness, whom have played a central role in the consolidation of happiness economics, as well as promising young scholars, showing the current dynamism and consolidation of happiness economics.

And the Russians Stayed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

And the Russians Stayed

This personal account of the author and members of his family spans thirty years, from January 1, 1959, up until the present day where the Soviets continue to use fortified coves to keep their missiles only 90 miles from America's shores. Photos.

What Is This Thing Called Happiness?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

What Is This Thing Called Happiness?

Fred Feldman presents a study of the nature and value of happiness. He offers critical discussions of the main philosophical and psychological theories of happiness, and a presentation and defense of his own theory of happiness.