ISBN: 9780198287971

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and se… More...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The idea of the quality of life is central to economic and social assessment and also to public policy, social legislation, and community programs. However, the commonly used indicators of economic success such as per capita income are at best crude measures of the quality of life. There is a strong need for a systematic exploration of the content, reach, and relevance of the concept of the quality of life, and ways of making it concrete and usable. In this collection of essays, some leading economists and philosophers rise to that challenge and provide a wide-ranging investigation. The essays include examinations of recent attempts to replace incomes and utilities by the concept of capability and also an exploration of the classic Aristotelian accounts of human flourishing, which provide insights into capability-based assessment of the quality of life. Some underlying methodological problems are also examined, including cultural relativism and utility as a measure of advantage. Possibilities of application are discussed in the context of important practical problems, such as correcting gender-based inequalities, determining medical priorities, and promoting living standards. The overall result is a major contribution to the understanding and use of the idea of the quality of life. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Business>Business & Economics>Economics, Oxford University Press Core >1 >T<

1993, ISBN: 9780198287971

[ED: Kartoniert / Broschiert], [PU: OUP Oxford], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Addressing issues of defining and measuri… More...

[ED: Kartoniert / Broschiert], [PU: OUP Oxford], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Addressing issues of defining and measuring the quality of life, this title examines developments in the philosophical definition of well-being and links them t, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Softcover, 468, [GW: 680g], Revised, Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Englischsprachige Bücher / Sonstiges - Englisch]<

1993, ISBN: 0198287976

Kartoniert / Broschiert Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Kulturanthropologie, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:OUP Oxford]

1993, ISBN: 0198287976

[EAN: 9780198287971], Neubuch, [PU: Clarendon Press], New, Books