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Human Well-Being and Economic Goals
Island Press, 1997 eISBN: 978-1-59726-244-6 | Paper: 978-1-55963-561-5 | Cloth: 978-1-55963-560-8 Library of Congress Classification HB98.2.H85 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 330.157
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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:
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. See other books on: Economic man | Green Business | Human Well - Being | Values | Welfare economics See other titles from Island Press |
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Human Well-Being and Economic Goals
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Island Press, 1997
eISBN: 978-1-59726-244-6
Paper: 978-1-55963-561-5
Cloth: 978-1-55963-560-8
eISBN: 978-1-59726-244-6
Paper: 978-1-55963-561-5
Cloth: 978-1-55963-560-8
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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