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Introduction -- The evidence on happiness -- Relative income and happiness -- Happiness and ethics -- Happiness and good development -- Happiness-oriented societal development under the premise of democracy -- Orientation for a knowledgeable world
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1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence on happiness -- 3. Relative income and happiness -- 4. Happiness and ethics -- 5. Happiness and good development -- 6. Happiness-oriented societal development under the premise of democracy -- 7. Orientation for a knowledgeable world.
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What are the methodologies that we should employ for designing and evaluating governmental policy, in light of the profound effects that policies have on the level and distribution of individuals' well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy is a comprehensive,...
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Why do some people behave pro-socially while others do not? Using an experimental design based on Konow and Earley (JPubE, 2008), I investigate a reason already proposed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics: He claims that there is a nexus between virtues and well-being and that enduring...
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Philippa Foot’s theory of Natural Goodness provides a theoretical ethical framework that encompasses Aristotelian …’s theory, walking through each step of the argument Foot provides in support for her ethical framework. Following, the merits … of the theory are compared to other renowned ethical theories, and the intuitive nature of Natural Goodness is …
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This paper is a lightly edited transcript of Sarah's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on April 25, 2018. It draws on primary research in Zambia but also reflects on the promotion of wellbeing in the UK. There are three main points. 1. The need to recover a key promise of the focus on wellbeing, to...
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