Authors of Original Articles | |
Foreword | |
Acknowledgments | |
Volume Introduction | |
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Well-Being | |
Overview Essay | p. 1 |
Alternative Conceptions of the Economic Realm | p. 15 |
The Meaning, Nature, and Source of Value in Economics | p. 18 |
Human Values and Economic Behavior: A Model of Moral Economy | p. 22 |
Material Well-Being and Human Well-Being | p. 26 |
The Joyless Market Economy | p. 29 |
Economic Institutions and the Satisfaction of Human Needs | p. 33 |
The Ethical Limitations of the Market | p. 36 |
Human Well-Being and the Natural World and Nature, Intrinsic Value, and Human Well-Being | p. 40 |
Taking Ethics Seriously: Economics and Contemporary Moral Philosophy | p. 44 |
Utility and Welfare I: The History of Economic Thought | |
Overview Essay | p. 49 |
Adam Smith on Justice and Distribution in Commercial Societies | p. 58 |
Jeremy Bentham | p. 61 |
Pure versus Eclectic Utilitarianism: The Writings of Bastiat and Mill | p. 64 |
Philosophy and Economics in the Writings of Karl Marx | p. 67 |
The Neoclassics: Utility | p. 70 |
Jevons, Marshall, and the Utilitarian Tradition | p. 74 |
Thorstein Veblen | p. 77 |
Utility and Welfare II: Modern Economic Alternatives | |
Overview Essay | p. 81 |
Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics? | p. 93 |
Keynes's Political Philosophy | p. 97 |
Welfare Economics | p. 100 |
The Invisible Hand and Modern Welfare Economics | p. 103 |
Social Choice: The Science of the Impossible? | p. 107 |
Some Nonwelfaristic Issues in Welfare Economics | p. 110 |
Game and Decision-Theoretic Models in Ethics | p. 113 |
A New Welfare Theory | p. 116 |
Applied Welfare Economics: Externalities, Valuation, and Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
Overview Essay | p. 121 |
Beyond the Dark Clouds: Pigou and Coase on Social Cost | p. 132 |
On Lemmings and Other Acquisitive Animals: Propositions on Consumption | p. 135 |
Choices without Prices without Apologies | p. 137 |
"Ask a Silly Question...": Contingent Valuation of Natural Resource Damages | p. 141 |
Valuing the Environment through Contingent Valuation | p. 144 |
Regulating the Electricity Supply Industry by Valuing Environmental Effects: How Much Is the Emperor Wearing? | p. 147 |
The Moral Dimension of Cost-Benefit Analysis, with Particular Reference to the Ozone Problem | p. 150 |
Intergenerational Transfers and the Social Discount Rate | p. 154 |
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Safety, and Environmental Quality | p. 157 |
Selections from Benefit, Cost, and Beyond | p. 161 |
Economics and the Good, I: Individuals | |
Overview Essay | p. 165 |
Who Is Happy? | p. 174 |
New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption | p. 177 |
Frames of Reference and Quality of Life | p. 180 |
Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse | p. 184 |
Should Preferences Count? | p. 188 |
Value, Desire, and Quality of Life | p. 191 |
Me and My Life | p. 194 |
Amartya Sen's Contributions to Understanding Personal Welfare | p. 197 |
Economics and the Good, II: Community | |
Overview Essay | p. 203 |
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life | p. 211 |
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital | p. 213 |
Winner-Take-All Markets and The Growth of Winner-Take-All-Markets | p. 216 |
Gang Behavior, Law Enforcement, and Community Values | p. 220 |
Institutions and Morale: The Crowding-Out Effect | p. 223 |
Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory | p. 227 |
Trust as a Commodity | p. 231 |
Amending the Economist's "Rational Egoist" Model to Include Moral Values and Norms | p. 234 |
Economics and the Good, III: Society | |
Overview Essay | p. 239 |
Welfare, Resources, and Capabilities: A Review of Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen | p. 249 |
Distributive Justice, Welfare Economics, and the Theory of Fairness | p. 252 |
Complex Equality | p. 255 |
Equality of Talent | p. 258 |
Equal Opportunity or Equal Social Outcome? | p. 262 |
Coherence Against the Pareto Principle and Equality | p. 266 |
Distributive Justice and Desirable Ends of Economic Activity | p. 269 |
Aristotelian Social Democracy | p. 273 |
Social Unity and Primary Goods | p. 276 |
National Development: From Basic Needs to the Welfare State | |
Overview Essay | p. 281 |
The Evolution of Development Thought | p. 292 |
Positive Freedom, Markets, and the Welfare State | p. 297 |
Functioning and Capability: The Foundations of Sen's and Nussbaum's Development Ethic, Parts 1 and 2 | p. 301 |
Connecting, Extending, Reversing: Development from a Gender Perspective | p. 308 |
Inequality and Growth Reconsidered: Lessons from East Asia | p. 312 |
Economic Theory and the Welfare State: A Survey and Interpretation | p. 316 |
Welfare | p. 320 |
What Is Distinctive About Swedish Social Democratic Ideology? | p. 324 |
The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State | p. 329 |
Critiques of National Income Accounting and GNP | |
Overview Essay | p. 335 |
The Concept of National Income | p. 342 |
Output | p. 347 |
Divergences of Measurement and Theory and Some Implications for Economic Policy | p. 351 |
Selections from Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth | p. 355 |
Measuring Household Activities: Some International Comparisons | p. 358 |
National Income Accounts and the Environment | p. 361 |
Environmental and Natural Resource Accounting: Where to Begin? | p. 365 |
The Indicators Crisis | p. 369 |
Alternatives to Gross National Product: A Critical Survey | |
Essay | p. 373 |
References | p. 403 |
Subject Index | p. 407 |
Name Index | p. 423 |
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