{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-well-being-and-public-policy-9780199325818","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew D. Adler | Marc Fleurbaey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four Parts. Part I covers the full range of methodologies for evaluating governmental policy and assessing societal condition-including both the leading approaches in current use by policymakers and academics (such as GDP, cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, inequality and poverty metrics, and the concept of the \"social welfare function\"), and emerging techniques. Part II focuses on the nature of well-being. What, most fundamentally, determines whether an individual life is better or worse for the person living it? Her happiness? Her preference-satisfaction? Her attainment of various \"objective goods\"? Part III addresses the measurement of well-being and the thorny topic of interpersonal comparisons. How can we construct a meaningful scale of individual welfare, which allows for comparisons of well-being levels and differences, both within one individual's life, and across lives? Finally, Part IV reviews the major\u003cbr\u003echallenges to designing governmental policy around individual well-being.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890360696983,"sku":"9780199325818","price":20858.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199325818.webp?v=1781179684","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-well-being-and-public-policy-9780199325818","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}