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The Quality of Life
Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen
Abstract
This volume gathers the thoughts of reputed academics in economics, social policy, philosophy, and the social sciences as they scrutinize contentions regarding quality of life and the way in which it is, it can be, and ought to be measured. Such debates roughly boil down to the merits and shortcomings of measuring the quality of human life in terms of utility, as well as to the advantages and pitfalls of alternatives to the utilitarian approach. Philosophical inquiries concerning what constitutes thriving human life, engage with concrete policy‐making and economic considerations in this work, ... More
Keywords: capability, economics, egalitarianism, philosophy, quality of life measurement, social policy, standard of living, utilitarianism, welfare
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1993 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198287971 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198287976.001.0001 |
