Sebastiano Bavetta

Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness (eBook, PDF)

An Economic and Political Perspective

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139990271
• Artikelnr.: 41506005

Autorenporträt

Sebastiano Bavetta is Professor of Economics at Università degli Studi, Palermo, Italy and visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches 'Economics of Freedom' in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program. He received his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests have been concerned with issues in positive and normative economics, and in political theory. He has published several books, including The Economics of Freedom, with Pietro Navarra (Cambridge, 2012). His work has also appeared in several journals including Social Choice and Welfare, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Constitutional Political Economy, Theory and Decision, and Economic Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

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.