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Volume 3: Human Well-Being and Economic Goals

Edited by: Ackerman, Frank; Kiron, David; Goodwin, Neva R.; Harris, Jonathan M.; Gallagher, Kevin P.

Series Editor: Neva R. Goodwin

Published by: Island Press, Washington, DC 1997

ISBN: 1-55963-560-6

  Authors of Original Articles
  Foreword for Volume 3
  Acknowledgments
  Volume Introduction

PART I
Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Well-Being

  Overview Essay
  Alternative Conceptions of the Economic Realm
  The Meaning, Nature, and Source of Value in Economics
  Human Values and Economic Behavior: A Model of Moral Economy
   Material Well-Being and Human Well-Being
  The Joyless Market Economy
  Economic Institutions and the Satisfaction of Human Needs
  The Ethical Limitations of the Market
  Human Well-Being and the Natural World
  Nature, Intrinsic Value, and Human Well-Being
  Taking Ethics Seriously: Economics and Contemporary Moral Philosophy

PART II
Utility And Welfare I: The History of Economic Thought

  Overview Essay
  Adam Smith on Justice and Distribution in Commercial Societies
  Jeremy Bentham
  Pure Versus Eclectic Utilitarianism: The Writings of Bastiat and Mill
   Philosophy and Economics in the Writings of Karl Marx
  The Neoclassics: Utility
  Jevons, Marshall, and the Utilitarian Tradition
  Thorstein Veblen

PART III
Utility And Welfare II: Modern Economic Alternatives

  Overview Essay
  Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics?
  Keynes’s Political Philosophy
  Welfare Economics
  The Invisible Hand and Modern Welfare Economics
  Social Choice: The Science of the Impossible?
  Some Non-welfaristic Issues in Welfare Economics
  Game and Decision-Theoretic Models in Ethics
  A New Welfare Theory

PART IV
Applied Welfare Economics: Externalities, Valuation, And Cost-Benefit Analysis

  Overview Essay
  Beyond the Dark Clouds: Pigou and Coase on Social Cost
  On Lemmings and Other Acquisitive Animals: Propositions on Consumption
  Choices without Prices without Apologies
  Ask a Silly Question: Contingent Valuation of Natural Resource Damages
  Valuing the Environment Through Contingent Valuation
  Regulating the Electricity Supply Industry by Valuing Environmental Effects: How Much Is the Emperor Wearing?
  The Methodology of Cost-Benefit Analysis, with Particular Reference to the Ozone Problem
  Intergenerational Transfers and the Social Discount Rate
  Cost-Benefit Analysis, Safety, and Environmental Quality
  Selections from Benefit, Cost, and Beyond

PART V
Economics And The Good, I: Individuals

  Overview Essay
  Who is Happy?
  New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption
  Frames of Reference and Quality of Life
  Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse
  Should Preferences Count?
  Value, Desire, and Quality of Life
  Me and My Life
  Review Essay: Amartya Sen’s Contributions to Understanding Personal Welfare

PART VI
Economics And The Good, II: Community

  Overview Essay
  The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life
  Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
  Winner-Take-All Markets
  The Growth of Winner-Take-All Markets
  Gang Behavior, Law Enforcement, and Community Values
  Institutions and Morale: The Crowding-Out Effect
  Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory
  Trust as a Commodity
  Amending the Economist’s “Rational Egoist” Model to Include Moral Values and Norms

PART VII
Economics And The Good, III: Society

  Overview Essay
  Welfare, Resources, and Capabilities: A Review of Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen
  Distributive Justice, Welfare Economics, and the Theory of Fairness
  Complex Equality
  Equality of Talent
  Equal Opportunity or Equal Social Outcome?
  Coherence Against the Pareto Principle and Equality
  Distributive Justice and Desirable Ends of Economic Activity
  Aristotelian Social Democracy
  Social Unity and Primary Goods

PART VIII
National Development: From Basic Needs to the Welfare State

  Overview Essay
  The Evolution of Development Thought
  Positive Freedom, Markets, and the Welfare State
  Functioning and Capability: The Foundation of Sen’s and Nussbaum’s Development Ethics, Part 1 and 2
  Connecting, Extending, Reversing: Development from a Gender Perspective
  Inequality and Growth Reconsidered: Lessons from East Asia
  Economic Theory and the Welfare State: A Survey and Interpretation
  What is Distinctive about Swedish Social Democratic Ideology?
  The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State

PART IX
Critiques of National Income Accounting and GNP

  Overview Essay
  The Concept of National Income
  Output
  Divergences of Measurement and Theory and Some Implications for Economic Policy
  A Calling to Account
  The Boundary of Conception
  The Eye of the Beholder: The UNSNA as Applied Patriarchy and How the UNSNA Makes Women Invisible
  If Counting Was the Limit of Intelligence: My Search for an Alternative to the UNSNA
  Measuring Household Activities: Some International Comparisons
  National Income Accounts and the Environment
  Environmental and Natural Resource Accounting: Where to Begin?
  The Indicators Crisis

PART X
Alternatives to Gross National Product: A Critical Survey

  Essay


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