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The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

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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.

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ISBN: 9780199325818
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Author: Matthew D Richard A Horvitz Professor of Law, Richard A Horvitz Professor of Law, Duke Law School Adler
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 984 pages
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Genres: Social welfare and social services
Political structure and processes
Welfare economics