TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bavetta,Sebastiano
AU  - Navarra,Pietro
AU  - Maimone,Dario
TI  - Freedom and the pursuit of happiness: an economic and political perspective 
SN  - 9781139794824 (ebook)
AV  - JC585 .B275 2014
U1  - 320.01/1 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Autonomy (Philosophy)
KW  - Well-being
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Introduction; 2. Individual well-being: theory and measurement; 3. Autonomy freedom and individual well-being; 4. Capability and individual well-being; 5. Economic freedom, political freedom and individual well-being; 6. Autonomy and negative freedom; 7. Autonomy and capability; 8. Autonomy, limited government, capability, and happiness; 9. Normative consequences of the pursuit of happiness
N2  - This book is about the relationship between different concepts of freedom and happiness. The book's authors distinguish three concepts for which an empirical measure exists: opportunity to choose (negative freedom), capability to choose (positive freedom), and autonomy to choose (autonomy freedom). They also provide a comprehensive account of the relationship between freedom and well-being by comparing channels through which freedoms affect quality of life. The book also explores whether the different conceptions of freedom complement or replace each other in the determination of the level of well-being. In so doing, the authors make freedoms a tool for policy making and are able to say which conception is the most effective for well-being, as circumstances change. The results have implications for a justification of a free society: maximizing freedoms is good for its favorable consequences upon individual well-being, a fundamental value for the judgment of human advantage
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139794824
ER  -