, Flavio Comim
Capabilities and Happiness
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. -
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General SOC000000
- Author(s)
- , Flavio Comim
- , Luigino Bruni
- Pugno, Maurizio
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780191559716