Capabilities and happiness: Potential synergies

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-176

  Comim, Flavio ^a  

^a Capability and Sustainability Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive preferences; Capability approach; Happiness; Human well being; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544455690     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760500129871     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. th Capability Conference, Pavia, 5-7 September 2004.
2. Berlin, I. (1958) "Two Concepts of Liberty," in I. Berlin (2002) Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Chiappero-Martinetti, E. (2000) "A Multidimensional Assessment of Well-Being Based on Sen's Functioning Approach," Revista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 108: 207-239.
4. Diener, E. (2000) "Subjective Well-Being: the science of happiness and a proposal for a national index," American Psychologist 55(1): 34-43.
5. Diener, E. and Seligman, M. (2004) "Beyond Money: toward an economy of well-being," Psychological Science in the Public Interest 5(1): 1-31.
6. Diener, E., Scollon, C. and Lucas, R. (2003) "The Evolving Concept of Subjective Well-Being: the multifaceted nature of happiness," Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology 15: 187-219.
7. Diener, E., Suh, E., Lucas, R. and Smith, H. (1999) "Subjective Well-Being: three decades of progress," Psychological Bulletin 125(2): 276-302.
8. Easterlin, R. (2003) "Building a Better Theory of Well-Being," Discussion Paper Series IZA, 742, march, mimeo.
9. Frey, B. and Stutzer, A. (2002) Happiness & Economics: how the economy and institutions affect human well-being, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
10. Frey, B., Benz, M. and Stutzer, A. (2004) "Introducing Procedural Utility: not only what, but also how matters," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160: 377-401.
11. Gasper, D. (2004) The Ethics of Development: From economism to human development, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
12. Gasper, D. (2000) "Development as Freedom: taking economics beyond commodities - the cautious boldness of Amartya Sen," Journal of International Development 12: 989-1001.
13. Gasper, D. (1997) "Sen's Capability Approach and Nussbaum's Capabilities Ethic," Journal of International Development 9(2): 281-302.
14. Helson, H. (1947) "Adaptation-level as a frame of reference for prediction of psychophysical data," American Journal of Psychology (60): 1-29.
15. Kahneman, D., Diener, E. and Schwarz, N. (1999) Well-Being: the foundations of hedonic psychology, New York: Russell Sage.
16. Krishnakumar, J. (2004) "Going Beyond Functionings to Capabilities: an econometric model to explain and estimate capabilities," Proceedings of the 4th Capability Conference, Pavia, 5-7 September, mimeo: 1-20.
17. Mitchell, G., May, A. and McDonald, A. (1995) "PICABUE: a methodological framework for the development of indicators of sustainable development," International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 2: 104-123.
18. Nussbaum, M. (2004) Hiding from Humanity: disgust, shame and the law, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
19. Nussbaum, M. (2000) Women and Human Development', the capabilities approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Nussbaum, M. (1990) Love's Knowledge: essays on philosophy and literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. Nussbaum, M. and Sen, A. (1988) "Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions," in M. Krausz (ed.) Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation, Notre Dame: 299-325.
22. Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
23. Schwarz, N. and Fritz, S. (1999) "Reports of Subjective Well-Being: Judgmental Processes and Their Methodological Implications," in D. Kahneman, E. Diener and N. Schwarz (eds) Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, New York: Russell Sage Foundation: 61-84.
24. Sen, A. (1999) Development as Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
25. Sen, A. (1992) Inequality Re-examined, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Sen, A. (1993) "Positional Objectivity," Philosophy and Public Affairs 22(2): 126-145.
27. Sen, A. (1985) "Well-Being, Agency and Freedom: the Dewey Lectures," The Journal of Philosophy LXXXII(4): 169-223.
28. Sen, A. (1979) "Utilitarianism and Welfarism," The Journal of Philosophy LXXVI(9): 463-489.
29. Sumner, L.W. (1996) Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30. Veenhoven, R. (2002) "Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators," Social Indicators Research 58: 33-45.
31. Veenhoven, R. (2002) "The Four Qualities of Life: ordering concepts and measures of the good life," Journal of Happiness Studies 1: 1-39.