Freedom or happiness? Agency and subjective well-being in the capability approach

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-375

  Kotan, Murat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agency; Freedom; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953291619     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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