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The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

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  • Adler, Matthew D.
    (Duke Law School)

  • Fleurbaey, Marc
    (Princeton University)

Abstract

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. Contributors to this volume - Jose Maria Abellan Matthew D. Adler Sabina Alkire Richard Arneson Robin Boadway John Broome Krister Bykvist Satya R. Chakravarty P.A. Chiappori Andrew E. Clark Frank A. Cowell Koen Decancq Paul Dolan Jean-Yves Duclos Francisco H.G. Ferriera Marc Fleurbaey Daniel Fujiwara Carol Graham Daniel M. Haybron Carmen Herrero Thomas Hurka Richard E. Lucas Maria Ana Lugo Francois Maniquet Philippe Mongin Dirk Neumann Vito Peragine Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades Marcus Pivato Thomas Pogge Gregory Ponthiere D.S. Prasada Rao Paul Schreyer Eldar Shafir William Thomson Luca Tiberti John A. Weymark Scott Wisor

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  • Adler, Matthew D. & Fleurbaey, Marc (ed.), 2016. "The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199325818.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199325818
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