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"The idea of the quality of life is central to economic and social assessment and also to public policy, social legislation, and community programmes. 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...

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Corporate Authors: World Institute for Development Economics Research, Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- (Editor), Sen, Amartya, 1933- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Series:Studies in development economics.
Subjects:
Quality of life > Congresses.
Public welfare > Congresses.
Human services > Congresses.
Social values > Congresses.
Qualité de la vie > Congrès.
Aide sociale > Congrès.
Valeurs sociales > Congrès.
Services sociaux > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Human services
Public welfare
Quality of life
Social values
Welvaartseconomie.
Kwaliteit van het bestaan.
QUALITY OF LIFE.
PUBLIC WELFARE.
PUBLIC SERVICES.
SOCIAL VALUES.
WELFARE ECONOMICS.
CONFERENCES.
Culture
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Equality of what? On welfare, goods, and capabilities / G.A. Cohen
  • Capability and well-being / Amartya Sen. Commentators on Cohen and Sen, Christine M. Korsgaard and Wulf Gaertner
  • Descriptions of inequality : the Swedish approach to welfare research / Robert Erikson. Commentator, Bengt-Christer Ysander
  • Having, loving, being : an alternative to the Swedish model of welfare research / Erik Allardt
  • Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics / Dan Brock. Commentator, James Griffin
  • Objectivity and the science-ethics distinction / Hilary Putnam, Commentator, Lorenz Krüger
  • Objectivity and social meaning / Michael Walzer. Commentator, Ruth Anna Putnam
  • Value, desire, and quality of life / Thomas Scanlon. Commentator, Sissela Bok
  • Explanation and practical reason / Charles Taylor. Commentator, Martha Nussbaum.
  • Non-relative virtues : an Aristotelian approach / Martha Nussbaum. Commentator, Susan Hurley
  • Women and the quality of life : two norms or one? / Julia Annas. Commentator, Margarita W. Valdés
  • Justice, gender, and international boundaries / Onora O'Neill. Commentator, Martha Nussbaum
  • Distributing health : the allocation of resources by an international agency / John E. Roemer. Commentator, Paul Seabright
  • The relativity of the welfare concept / B.M.S. van Praag. Commentator, Siddiq Osmani
  • Pluralism and the standard of living / Paul Seabright. Commentator, Derek Parfit
  • Life-style and the standard of living / Christopher Bliss. Commentator, Amartya Sen.