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Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being

Part of Studies in Rationality and Social Change

Editors:
Jon Elster, Columbia University, New York
John E. Roemer

Jon Elster, John E. Roemer, 1Thomas M. Scanlon, James Griffin, John Broome, Daniel Kahneman, Carol Varey, Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, Peter J. Hammond, John A. Weymark, Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin, John E. Roemer, Aanund Hylland, C. D'Aspremont, L. A. Gerard-Varet

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Date Published: July 1993
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521457224

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In this volume a diverse group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists address the problems, principles, and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals. A series of questions lie at the heart of this investigation: What is the relevant concept of well-being for the purposes of comparison? How could the comparisons be carried out for policy purposes? How are such comparisons made now? How do the difficulties involved in these comparisons affect the status of utilitarian theories? This collection constitutes the most advanced and comprehensive treatment of one of the cardinal issues in social theory.
- Only serious treatment of major topic in social theory
- Should sell like other collections in the series e.g. Foundations of Social Choice Theory
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- Date Published: July 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521457224
- length: 412 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Jon Elster and John E. Roemer
1. The moral basis of interpersonal comparisons Thomas M. Scanlon
2. Against the taste model James Griffin
3. Utilitarian metaphysics? John Broome
4. Local justice and interpersonal comparisons Jon Elster
5. Notes on the psychology of utility Daniel Kahneman and Carol Varey
6. Adult-equivalence scales, interpersonal comparisons of well-being, and applied welfare economics Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson
7. Interpersonal comparisons of utility: why and how they are and should be made Peter J. Hammond
8. A consideration of the Harsanyi-Sen debate on utilitarianism John A. Weymark
9. Deducing interpersonal comparisons from local expertise Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin and John E. Roemer
10. Subjective interpersonal comparison Aanund Hylland
11. Utilitarian fundamentalism and limited information C. D'Aspremont and L. A. Gerard-Varet
Index.
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Editors
Jon Elster, Columbia University, New York
John E. Roemer
Contributors
Jon Elster, John E. Roemer, 1Thomas M. Scanlon, James Griffin, John Broome, Daniel Kahneman, Carol Varey, Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, Peter J. Hammond, John A. Weymark, Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin, John E. Roemer, Aanund Hylland, C. D'Aspremont, L. A. Gerard-Varet