Towards an economics of well-being

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1123-1142

  McGregor, J Allister ^a   Pouw, Nicky ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inequality; Ontology; Pluralism; Poverty; Sustainable development; Well being

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALIZATION; POVERTY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85026307717     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bew044     Document Type: Article

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