Capabilities And Happiness

Author : Luigino Bruni
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191559717
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capabilities and Happiness written by Luigino Bruni and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (or the power to acquire market goods) as the most important indicator for well-being, and the utility function as the formal device for positive and normative analysis. However, this approach to well-being has been questioned for being seriously limited and other approaches have arisen. The capability approach to well-being, which has been developed during the last two decades by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, and the Happiness Approach to well-being, championed by Richard Easterlin, both provide an alternative. Both approaches come from different traditions and have developed independently, but nevertheless aim to overcome the rigid boundaries of the conventional economic approach to well-being. Given these common aims, it is surprising that little comparative work has been undertaken across these approaches. This book aims to correct this by providing the reader with contributions from leading names associated with both approaches, as well as contributions which evaluate the approaches and contrast one with the other.

Author : Luigino Bruni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199532141
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capabilities and Happiness written by Luigino Bruni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783744243
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice written by Ingrid Robeyns and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.

Author : Paul Anand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198735456
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness Explained written by Paul Anand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a response to one of the oldest questions known to humankind namely, what is happiness and how can we ensure that communities are flourishing, happy places for people to live and work?

Author : Floriana Irtelli
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1803555912
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness and Wellness written by Floriana Irtelli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of chapters on happiness and well-being. It includes contributions from scientists from all over the world, who present different, multifaceted, dialectically open perspectives and sensitivities regarding happiness. The authors discuss happiness and well-being from biological, biopsychosocial, anthropological, and philosophical points of view.

Author : Flavio Comim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009232703
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities written by Flavio Comim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social choice & the capability approach; issues of social vs collective agency; a rich discussion of key human development applications.

Author : Mike Goode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192606913
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Capabilities written by Mike Goode and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume contends that how a literary text behaves when it encounters new media reveals medial capabilities of the text that can transform how we understand its significance for the original historical context for which it was created. Following an introductory theoretical chapter that explains the book's unconventional approach to the archive, Romantic Capabilities analyzes significant popular "media behaviors" exhibited by three major Romantic British literary corpuses: the viral circulation of William Blake's pictures and proverbs across contemporary media, the gravitation of Victorian panorama painters and 3D photographers to Walter Scott's historical fictions, and the ongoing popular practice of writing fanfiction set in the worlds of Jane Austen's novels and their imaginary country estates. The result is a book that reveals Blake to be an important early theorist of viral media and the law, Scott's novels to be studies in vision that helped give rise to modern immersive media, and Austenian realism to be a mode of ecological design whose project fanfiction grasps and extends. It offers insight into the politics of virality, the dependence of immersion on a sense of frame, and the extent to which eighteenth-century landscape gardening anticipated Deleuzian ideas of the "virtual" by granting existence to reality's as-yet-unrealized capabilities.

Author : Adam Braun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730636
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise of a Pencil written by Adam Braun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, "A pencil." This small request led to a staggering series of events that took the author backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving one of the world's most prestigious jobs at Bain & Company to found Pencils of Promise, the organization he started with just $25 that has since built more than 200 schools around the world. This book chronicles the author's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn your biggest ambitions into reality, even if you start with as little as $25. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. It is filled with compelling stories and shareable insights. All proceeds from this book support Pencils of Promise.

Author : Flavio Comim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427804
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers of the Capability Approach written by Flavio Comim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contribute to an inclusive discussion of the latest techniques and issues examined by the capability approach. It will appeal to readers across academic backgrounds including development studies, economics, sociology, education, urban planning, political science, geography, public policy and management.

Author : John M. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351953478
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capabilities and Social Justice written by John M. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops a unified vision of the capability approach embodying the ideal of creating the greatest possible condition for the realization of basic capabilities for all. He then assesses this vision as a political theory arguing that capabilities are necessary but not sufficient for overcoming conditions of domination. The book calls for a more intimate relationship between individual liberty and the freedom of the political community as a whole.