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  • Measuring Social Welfare

    An Introduction

    by Matthew D. Adler ...
    Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual well-being, how these effects balance against each other, and how trade-offs between overall well-being and inequality should be resolved. How to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Risk, Death, and Well-Being

    The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation

    by Matthew D. Adler ...
    Series series Population-Level Bioethics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. A wide range of governmental policies characteristic of the modern state seek to reduce individuals' fatality risks--risks that arise from air and water pollution, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution

    by Matthew Adler, Kenneth Einar Himma ...
    The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution is a volume of original essays that discuss the applicability of Hart's rule of recognition model of a legal system to U.S. constitutional law. The contributors are leading scholars in analytical jurisprudence and constitutional theory, including Matthew Adler, Larry Alexander, Mitchell Berman, Michael Dorf, Kent Greenawalt, Richard Fallon, Michael ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

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    What Life Should Mean To You

    by Alfred Adler ...
    Narrated by Chris Matthews ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    Adler, along with Freud and Jung, created an entirely new branch of psychology, namely psychoanalysis. What Life Should Mean to You brings his conclusions to a popular audience. The book covers adolescence, feelings of superiority and inferiority, the importance of cooperation, work, friendship, love and marriage. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Prioritarianism in Practice

    Edited by Matthew D. Adler, Ole F. Norheim ...
    Prioritarianism is an ethical theory that gives extra weight to the well-being of the worse off. In contrast, dominant policy-evaluation methodologies, such as benefit-cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and utilitarianism, ignore or downplay issues of fair distribution. Based on a research group founded by the editors, this important book is the first to show how prioritarianism can be ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

    Edited by Matthew D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

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    Theory and Practice

    by David A. Freedman ...
    This lively and engaging book explains the things you have to know in order to read empirical papers in the social and health sciences, as well as the techniques you need to build statistical models of your own. The discussion in the book is organized around published studies, as are many of the exercises. Relevant journal articles are reprinted at the back of the book. Freedman makes a thorough ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics

    A Handbook

    Edited by Andrew Caplin, Andrew Schotter ...
    Series series Handbooks of Economic Methodology
    The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. Economists have been introducing new theories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Crosscutting Social Circles

    Testing a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations

    by Joseph Schwartz, Peter Blau ...
    Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other, and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan areas In the United States. The focus is on the Influence social structure exerts on intergroup relations. Blau and Schwartz show how role relations are influenced by how people are distributed among social positions. Examples are a community's racial composition, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B

    Edited by Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbooks in Economics
    How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions? Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and the creation of peer dynamics, they demonstrate how they tease out social ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Real Estate Valuation Theory

    A Critical Appraisal

    by Manya M. Mooya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This monograph critically reviews and updates real estate valuation theory, which is based on neoclassical economics, in light of developments in heterodox economic theory. Building on a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of value theory, the book uses new institutional economics theory and critical realism as lenses through which problems in standard valuation theory and practice ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Beyond GDP

    Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability

    by Marc Fleurbaey, Didier Blanchet ...
    In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success. This book revisits the foundations of indicators of social welfare, and critically examines the four main alternatives to GDP that have been proposed: composite indicators, subjective well-being indexes, capabilities (the underlying ... Read more

    $79.19 USD