consumption and happiness - University of Notre Dame
... reducing unemployment. Economic activity in markets strengthens communities. Not only can the quest for a better life make the economy expand, but also provide the resources with which to clean up the environment. A relatively small but growing number of economists and other social scientists have p ...
... reducing unemployment. Economic activity in markets strengthens communities. Not only can the quest for a better life make the economy expand, but also provide the resources with which to clean up the environment. A relatively small but growing number of economists and other social scientists have p ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... everyone can fully develop his or her talents. As a result, people in a communist society lack nothing and are perfectly happy. In addition, happiness is connected with virtuous behaviors in morality courses. That is, students are taught that happiness is the outcome of certain virtues such as helpi ...
... everyone can fully develop his or her talents. As a result, people in a communist society lack nothing and are perfectly happy. In addition, happiness is connected with virtuous behaviors in morality courses. That is, students are taught that happiness is the outcome of certain virtues such as helpi ...
The ethics platform in tourism research
... This paper argues that to solely regard a nation’s output of goods and services as growth and hence development appears somewhat negligent, since primarily these economic accounts do not reflect the real quality of life, in particular, the distribution of wealth in terms of human ’wellbeing.’ For ex ...
... This paper argues that to solely regard a nation’s output of goods and services as growth and hence development appears somewhat negligent, since primarily these economic accounts do not reflect the real quality of life, in particular, the distribution of wealth in terms of human ’wellbeing.’ For ex ...
Introduction to ethics - U of L Personal Web Sites
... particular source (e.g. religious texts) are asserted to create absolute obligations While not strictly “theories”, deontological codes create obligations which are often interpreted in an absolute way. Guiding principle theories in which moral obligations can be derived from one guiding principle ...
... particular source (e.g. religious texts) are asserted to create absolute obligations While not strictly “theories”, deontological codes create obligations which are often interpreted in an absolute way. Guiding principle theories in which moral obligations can be derived from one guiding principle ...
Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
... of relatively rich and less rich individuals in a given country at a point in time. Many authors have found a positive and strong within-country relationship between subjective well being, measured in various ways, and income. For example, Robert Frank argues for the importance of income as follows: ...
... of relatively rich and less rich individuals in a given country at a point in time. Many authors have found a positive and strong within-country relationship between subjective well being, measured in various ways, and income. For example, Robert Frank argues for the importance of income as follows: ...
Servais Pinckaers: Returning to a Thomisitc Morality of Happiness
... happiness is to be found in the higher activity of contemplation of God alone, the genius of Aquinas is that he also recognises the legitimate role of human action in ascending to these great heights of beatitude; that even our human actions have within them a natural, primordial and subjective fina ...
... happiness is to be found in the higher activity of contemplation of God alone, the genius of Aquinas is that he also recognises the legitimate role of human action in ascending to these great heights of beatitude; that even our human actions have within them a natural, primordial and subjective fina ...
2 Booklet 2 Utilitarianism
... Some more explanations Extract from Joe Jenkins Ethics and Religion 1999 Mill believed that his Utilitarian ethic had caught the very spirit of the Golden Rule (to treat others as you could want them to treat us). However, Christian love knows no limit and is prepared to go not one mile but two. To ...
... Some more explanations Extract from Joe Jenkins Ethics and Religion 1999 Mill believed that his Utilitarian ethic had caught the very spirit of the Golden Rule (to treat others as you could want them to treat us). However, Christian love knows no limit and is prepared to go not one mile but two. To ...
Alternative measures of well-being
... the 1980s, when the OECD first presented its social indicators (OECD, 1986). This progress needs to be sustained, inter alia through greater co-operation between the statistical offices of member countries and international organisations such as the OECD – whose role in this field can be similar to ...
... the 1980s, when the OECD first presented its social indicators (OECD, 1986). This progress needs to be sustained, inter alia through greater co-operation between the statistical offices of member countries and international organisations such as the OECD – whose role in this field can be similar to ...
Is Happiness a Predictor of Election Results? - CEP
... their actions or type. This informational asymmetry is central to the notion of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957), which highlights the high cost of acquiring and filtering relevant information relative to the low probability of a vote being decisive to an electoral outcome. Even though people often ...
... their actions or type. This informational asymmetry is central to the notion of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957), which highlights the high cost of acquiring and filtering relevant information relative to the low probability of a vote being decisive to an electoral outcome. Even though people often ...
University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Benefit or burden
... Regarding other welfare measures, Esposto and Zaleski (1999) find in 6 out of 8 regressions that the quality of life, in terms of literacy rates and life expectancy, increases with more EF compared within and between nations. Norton (1998) shows for about 70 countries that stronger protection of pr ...
... Regarding other welfare measures, Esposto and Zaleski (1999) find in 6 out of 8 regressions that the quality of life, in terms of literacy rates and life expectancy, increases with more EF compared within and between nations. Norton (1998) shows for about 70 countries that stronger protection of pr ...
Psychological Egoism - David Kelsey`s Philosophy Home Page
... selfish motives is a non sequitur. (section 6) • Question: what is a non sequitur? • We know that: every voluntary action is prompted by the agent’s own motives. • We are mistakenly inferring that: every voluntary action is promoted by motives of a particular kind, I.e. selfish ones. ...
... selfish motives is a non sequitur. (section 6) • Question: what is a non sequitur? • We know that: every voluntary action is prompted by the agent’s own motives. • We are mistakenly inferring that: every voluntary action is promoted by motives of a particular kind, I.e. selfish ones. ...
living better on less? toward an economics of
... 2. THE INCOME-HAPPINESS PARADOX: IS MORE ALWAYS BETTER? ...
... 2. THE INCOME-HAPPINESS PARADOX: IS MORE ALWAYS BETTER? ...
1 Growth and Happiness in China, 1990
... Unlike trust, the overall pattern of change in civic cooperation consequently differs considerably from that in SWB, and casts doubt on any causal connection between the two. The results in the general literature on the relation between income inequality and happiness are mixed—some studies report n ...
... Unlike trust, the overall pattern of change in civic cooperation consequently differs considerably from that in SWB, and casts doubt on any causal connection between the two. The results in the general literature on the relation between income inequality and happiness are mixed—some studies report n ...
Utilitarianism
... Mill replaced pleasure with ‘happiness’: “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” – so he moved away from mere quantity to the quality of happiness as well. Mill defined happiness as something which is cultural and spiritual rather than just physical and distinguished between lower pleas ...
... Mill replaced pleasure with ‘happiness’: “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” – so he moved away from mere quantity to the quality of happiness as well. Mill defined happiness as something which is cultural and spiritual rather than just physical and distinguished between lower pleas ...
PowerPoint
... Accounting for Care: a Reseach and Survey Design Agenda, Nancy Folbre, University of Massachussets, Amherst The unpaid activities and Well-Being: the measurement issues, Challenges and Limitations Harpreet Kaur and Anupama Uppal, Punjabi University ...
... Accounting for Care: a Reseach and Survey Design Agenda, Nancy Folbre, University of Massachussets, Amherst The unpaid activities and Well-Being: the measurement issues, Challenges and Limitations Harpreet Kaur and Anupama Uppal, Punjabi University ...
Chapter 3 - World Happiness Report
... same symptoms of affluence, which were virtually nonexistent in the countryside in 1990, had become quite common by 2012.2 In the face of such new-found plenitude, one would suppose that the population’s feelings of well-being would have enjoyed a similar multiplication. Yet, as will be discussed, w ...
... same symptoms of affluence, which were virtually nonexistent in the countryside in 1990, had become quite common by 2012.2 In the face of such new-found plenitude, one would suppose that the population’s feelings of well-being would have enjoyed a similar multiplication. Yet, as will be discussed, w ...
Happy Generations, Depressed Generations
... Others like Deaton and Paxson (1994) assumed that period effects have a zero mean and are orthogonal to a linear time trend. Accordingly, they developed an orthogonal period-effect (OPE) model. Still others like Heckman and Robb (1985) argued that age, period and cohort effects are unobservable and ...
... Others like Deaton and Paxson (1994) assumed that period effects have a zero mean and are orthogonal to a linear time trend. Accordingly, they developed an orthogonal period-effect (OPE) model. Still others like Heckman and Robb (1985) argued that age, period and cohort effects are unobservable and ...
OECD work on How*s Life? and next steps
... the social and environmental dimensions of economic development” UN Resolution calling for “holistic approach to development” to promote sustainable happiness and wellbeing Rio+20 Outcome document and post-2015 agenda to develop Sustainable Development Goals ...
... the social and environmental dimensions of economic development” UN Resolution calling for “holistic approach to development” to promote sustainable happiness and wellbeing Rio+20 Outcome document and post-2015 agenda to develop Sustainable Development Goals ...
Notes on Utilitarianism
... 5. So far, we’ve been talking about what’s called Act Utilitarianism (AU), because we’ve been speaking as though what makes an action right or wrong is the (reasonably expected) consequences of that action alone. But there are good reasons for Utilitarians not to be Act Utilitarians, chiefly becaus ...
... 5. So far, we’ve been talking about what’s called Act Utilitarianism (AU), because we’ve been speaking as though what makes an action right or wrong is the (reasonably expected) consequences of that action alone. But there are good reasons for Utilitarians not to be Act Utilitarians, chiefly becaus ...
Ethical theorists: A comparison of main ideas
... At the age of forty-six, Kant received an appointment as a professor of logic and metaphysics at his alma mater the University of Königsberg. His famous claim: "Though our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises out of experience.“ A philosophical classic is his work Crit ...
... At the age of forty-six, Kant received an appointment as a professor of logic and metaphysics at his alma mater the University of Königsberg. His famous claim: "Though our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises out of experience.“ A philosophical classic is his work Crit ...
How`s Life - EESC European Economic and Social Committee
... • Households and people, not just GDP • Outcomes, not inputs or outputs • Assessing inequalities alongside averages ...
... • Households and people, not just GDP • Outcomes, not inputs or outputs • Assessing inequalities alongside averages ...
BLI Presentation for Visits and Seminars Programme
... Focus on outcomes Objective and subjective aspects Both averages and inequalities ...
... Focus on outcomes Objective and subjective aspects Both averages and inequalities ...
Utilitarianism
... To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Utility is NOT a “godless” doctrine. “If it be a true belief that God desires, above all things, the happiness of his creatures, and that this was his purpose in their cr ...
... To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Utility is NOT a “godless” doctrine. “If it be a true belief that God desires, above all things, the happiness of his creatures, and that this was his purpose in their cr ...
How Important is Character in Ethics paper
... individual should only be virtuous if that action gives that individual pleasure. Mill argues that happiness is the basis of justice and that all actions are rooted in a desire to find happiness. This being the case, Mill says that a human would not choose a lower level of existence to avoid pain. F ...
... individual should only be virtuous if that action gives that individual pleasure. Mill argues that happiness is the basis of justice and that all actions are rooted in a desire to find happiness. This being the case, Mill says that a human would not choose a lower level of existence to avoid pain. F ...