Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment

Summary and Guide; Introduction: Means and Ends; PROLOGUE; 1. The Notion of Well-Being; *1 Ordering Social States; 2. Why Measure Well-Being?; 3. Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being; PROLOGUE; 4. Theory; 5. Current Quality of Life in Poor Countries; PROLOGUE; 6. Intergenerational Well-Being; *6 Intergenerational Conflicts; 7. Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment; 8. Valuing Goods; 9. Wealth and Well-Being; PROLOGUE; 10. Policy Reforms; 11. Discounting Future Consumption: How and Why; 12. Institutional Responses to Policy Change; PROLOGUE; 13. Some Views; 14. Classical Utilitarianism and the Genesis Problem; *14 Numbers and Well-Being under Classical Utilitarianism; 15. Actual versus Potential Lives; *15 Generation-Relative Utilitarianism; Appendix
Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press, Ilość stron: 328, Oprawa: hardback, ISBN: 0199247889

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