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The quality of life : a study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University by Martha C Nussbaum; Amartya Kumar Sen; World Institute for Development Economics Research.; Oxford University Press is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The idea of the quality of life is central to economic and social assessment and also to public policy, social legislation, and community programs. 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 a strong need for a systematic exploration of the content, reach, and relevance of the concept of the quality of life, and ways of making it concrete and usable. In this collection of essays, some leading economists and philosophers rise to that challenge and provide a wide-ranging investigation. The essays include examinations of recent attempts to replace incomes and utilities by the concept of capability and also an exploration of the classic Aristotelian accounts of human flourishing, which provide insights into capability-based assessment of the quality of life. Some underlying methodological problems are also examined, including cultural relativism and utility as a measure of
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- Author
- Martha C Nussbaum; Amartya Kumar Sen; World Institute for Development Economics Research.; Oxford University Press
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191596704
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Sociology, Social Science