Human
Well-Being and Economic Goals
Edited
by Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin,
Jonathan M. Harris, and Kevin Gallagher
Table
of Contents
Authors of Original Articles
Foreword by Tibor Scitovsky
Acknowledgments
Volume Introduction
by Neva R. Goodwin
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To read page 1 of each section's introductory essay,
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within each section.
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PART I
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Well-being
Overview Essay
Neva R. Goodwin
Alternative
Conceptions of the Economic Realm
Jerome Segal
The Meaning,
Nature, and Source of Value in Economics
Tibor Scitovsky
Human Values
and Economic Behavior
John Oliver Wilson
Material
Well-Being and Human Well-being
Peter Travers and Sue Richardson
The Joyless
Market Economy
Robert Lane
Economic
Institutions and the Satisfaction of Human Needs
Ian Gough
The Ethical
Limitations of the Market
Elizabeth Anderson
Human Well-being
and the Natural World
John O'Neill
Taking Ethics
Seriously: Economics and Contemporary Moral Philosophy
Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson
PART II
Utility and Welfare I: The History of Economic Thought
Overview Essay
Frank Ackerman
Adam Smith
on Justice and Distribution in Commercial Societies
John Salter
Jeremy Bentham
John Bonner
Pure versus
Eclectic Utilitarianism: The Writings of Bastiat
and Mill
E.K. Hunt
Philosophy
and Economics in the Writings of Karl Marx
E.K. Hunt
The Neo-Classics:
Utility
Joan Robinson
Jevons, Marshall and the Utilitarian Tradition
R. D. Collison
Black
Thorstein Veblen
E.K. Hunt
PART III
Utility and Welfare II: Modern Economic Alternatives
Overview Essay
Frank Ackerman
Were the
Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics?
Robert Cooter and Peter Rappaport
Keynes' Political
Philosophy
Rod O'Donnell
Welfare Economics
Peter Jackson
The Invisible
Hand and Modern Welfare Economics
Joseph Stiglitz
Social Choice:
The Science of the Impossible?
Peter Hammond
Some non-welfaristic
Issues in Welfare Economics
Prasanta Pattanaik
Game and
Decision Theoretic Models in Ethics
J.C. Harsanyi
A New Welfare
Theory
Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert
PART IV
Utility and Welfare III: Externalities, Valuation,
and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Overview Essay
Frank Ackerman
Beyond the
Dark Clouds: Pigou and Coase on Social Cost
Nahid Aslanbeigui
On Lemmings
and Other Acquisitive Animals: Propositions on Consumption
E.K. Hunt and Ralph D'Arge
Choices without
Prices without Apologies
Arild Vatn and Daniel W. Bromley
'Ask a Silly
Question ...': Contingent Valuation of Natural Resource
Damages
Harvard Law Review Editors
Valuing the
Environment Through Contingent Valuation
W. Michael Hanemann
Regulating
the Electricity Supply Industry by Valuing Environmental
Effects
Andrew Stirling
The Methodology
of Cost-Benefit Analysis, with Particular Reference
to the Ozone Problem
Ezra J. Mishan and Talbot Page
Cost-Benefit
Analysis, Safety, and Environmental Quality
Elizabeth Anderson
Selections
from Benefit, Cost and Beyond
James Campen
PART V
Economics and the Good, I: Individuals
Overview Essay
David Kiron
Who is Happy?
David Myers and Ed Diener
New Challenges
to the Rationality Assumption
Daniel Kahneman
Frames of
Reference and the Quality of Life
Robert Frank
Against Parsimony:
Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories
of Economic Discourse
Albert O. Hirschman
Should Preferences
Count?
Mark Sagoff
Value, Desire,
and Quality of Life
Thomas Scanlon
Me and My
Life
Shelly Kagan
Review Essay:
Amartya Sen^Òs Contributions to Understanding
Personal Welfare
David Kiron
PART VI
Economics and the Good, II: Community
Overview Essay
David Kiron
The Prosperous
Community
Robert Putnam
Social Capital
in the Creation of Human Capital
James S. Coleman
The Winner-Take-All
Society
Robert Frank and Philip J. Cook
Gang Behavior,
Law Enforcement, and Community Values
George Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen
Institutions
and Morale: The Crowding-out Effect
Bruno Frey
Return of
the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship
Theory
Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman
Trust as
a Commodity
Partha Dasgupta
Amending
the Economist's "Rational Egoist" Model
to Include Moral Values and Norm Robert S. Goldfarb
and William B. Griffith
PART VII
Economics and the Good, III: Society
Overview Essay
David Kiron
Social Unity
and Primary Goods
John Rawls
Welfare,
Resources, and Capabilities: A Review of Inequality
Reexamined by Amartya Sen
Robert Sugden
Distributive
Justice and Desirable Ends of Economic Activity
Kenneth Arrow
Aristotelian
Social Democracy
Martha Nussbaum
Distributive
Justice, Welfare Economics, and the Theory of Fairness
Hal Varian
Complex Equality
Michael Walzer
Equality
of Talent
John Roemer
Equal Opportunity
or Equal Social Outcome
Marc Fleurbaey
Selections
from Weighing Goods
John Broome
PART VIII
Poverty, The Welfare State, and Development Goals
Overview Essay
Frank Ackerman
The Evolution
of Development Thought
Paul Streeten
Postive Freedom,
Markets, and the Welfare State
Partha Dasgupta
Functioning
and Capability: The Foundations of Sen and Nussbaum's
Development Ethic
David Crocker
Connecting,
Extending, Reversing: Development from a Gender
Perspective
Naila Kabeer
Inequality
and growth reconsidered: lessons from East Asia
Nancy Birdsall, David Ross, and Richard Sabot
Economic
Theory and the Welfare State: A Survey and Interpretation
Nicholas Barr
Welfare
Robert Kuttner
What is Distinctive
about Swedish Social Democratic Ideology?
Timothy Tilton
The Three
Political Economies of the Welfare State
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
PART IX
Critiques of National Income Accounting and GDP
Overview Essay
Jonathan Harris
Concept of
National Income
Simon Kuznets
Output Fred
Block
Divergence of Measurement and Theory and Some Implications
for Economic Policy\
Robert Eisner
Selections
from If Women Counted
Marilyn Waring
Measuring
Household Activities: Some International Comparisons
Ann Chadeau
National
Income Accounts and the Environment
Henry Peskin
Environmental
and Natural Resource Accounting: Where to Begin?
Carrie Meyer
The Indicators
Crisis," or "Beyond GNP" from Paradigms
in Progress
Hazel Henderson
PART X
Alternative Indicators of National Development
Overview Essay
Richard England
