Preface / Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger -- Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life / Harvey C. Mansfield -- Hobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy / Peter B. Josephson -- Rousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing / John T. Scott -- Adam Smith and Human...

Since the 1990s, Latin America has witnessed indigenous mobilization which contest the public policies implemented by their governments. They contend that public policy is not about following a linear development model of material accumulation, but about buen vivir or Good Living, about...

This paper presents a characterization of a welfare index for the evaluation of primary goods (to be understood as those goods that all agents should enjoy equally). The welfare associated with a given distribution of n primary goods among m agents is measured as the sum of n real-valued...