The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Release date:	June 2016
Editors:	Matthew D. Adler (Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law) • Marc Fleurbaey (Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor of Public Affairs)
Dimensions:	254 x 180 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	984
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-932581-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-932581-2
Barcode:	9780199325818

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