Human well-being and economic goals
According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction between 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 topic. It brings together more than 75 concise summaries of the most significant writings that consider issues of present and future individual and social welfare, national development, consumption, and equity
Aufsatzsammlung
xxxii, 427 pages ; 24 cm.
9781559635608, 9781559635615, 1559635606, 1559635614
37493487
Interdisciplinary perspectives on well-being
Utility and welfare I : the history of economic thought
Utility and welfare II : modern economic alternatives
Applied welfare economics : externalities, valuation, and cost-benefit analysis
Economics and the good, I : individuals
Economics and the good, II : community
Economics and the good, III : society
National development : from basic needs to the welfare state
Critiques of national income accounting and GNP
Alternatives to gross national product : a critical survey
"A research and publication project of the Program for the Study of Sustainable Change and Development, The Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University."