Human Well-Being and Economic Goals - Brossura

Program For The Study Of Sustainable Change And Development

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1559635614 ISBN 13: 9781559635615

Casa editrice: Island Pr, 1997

Riassunto

What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals addresses that issue, considering such questions as:

• Does the maximization of individual welfare really lead to social welfare?
• How can we deal with questions of relative welfare and of equity?
• How do we define, or at least understand, individual and social welfare?
• And how can these things be measured, or even assessed?

Human Well-Being and Economic Goals brings together more than 75 concise summaries of the most significant literature in the field that consider issues of present and future individual and social welfare, national development, consumption, and equity. Like its predecessors in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought series, it takes a multidisciplinary approach to economic concerns, examining their sociological, philosophical, and psychological aspects and implications as well as their economic underpinnings.

Human Well-Being and Economic Goals provides a powerful introduction to the current and historical writings that examine the concept of human well-being in ways that can help us to set goals for economic activity and judge its success. It is a valuable summary and overview for students, economists, and social scientists concerned with these issues.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Frank Ackerman is senior research associate at the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University.

David Kiron is research associate at the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University.

Neva R. Goodwin is co-director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University.

Jonathan M. Harris is senior research associate at the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Island Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1559635614
• ISBN 13: 9781559635615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 427
• Redattore: Ackerman Frank, Kiron David, Goodwin Neva R., Harris Jonathan M., Gallagher Kevin P.
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