{"product_id":"well-being-and-fair-distribution-beyond-cost-benefit-analysis-9780195384994","title":"Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Adler\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Business Ethics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWell-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e, author Matthew D. Adler provides readers with a comprehensive, philosophically grounded argument for the use of social welfare functions as a framework for governmental policy analysis--a framework that is welfarist but not utilitarian, and sensitive to the distribution of human well-being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWell-Being and Fair Distribution\u003c\/em\u003e addresses a range of relevant theoretical issues, including the nature of well-being and the possibility of interpersonal welfare comparisons; the moral value of equality, and how that bears on the form of the social welfare function; social choice under uncertainty; and the integration of individual responsibility into the social-welfare function approach. Adler also explores issues of implementation by looking at how survey data and other sources of evidence might be used to calibrate both a well-being metric and a social welfare function, and discussing whether distributive goals are ever best pursued through regulation rather than the tax system. In working through this range of theoretical and practical issues, \u003cem\u003eWell-Being and Fair Distribution\u003c\/em\u003e draws from a wide variety of literatures, including philosophical scholarship on equality, \"prioritarianism,\" responsibility, well-being, and personal identity over time; the social choice literature within\u003cbr\u003eeconomics; applied economic literatures concerning the measurement of inequality and poverty; legal and policy-analytic scholarship on cost-benefit analysis, environmental justice, and the choice between regulation and taxation; and the burgeoning field of \"happiness studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891232260247,"sku":"9780195384994","price":13657.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195384994.webp?v=1781182770","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/well-being-and-fair-distribution-beyond-cost-benefit-analysis-9780195384994","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}