A theory of subjective well-being / Mark Fabian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabian, Mark, author.

Series:

Philosophy, politics, and economics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Philosophy, politics, and economics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being--Research.

Well-being.

Well-being--Research--Methodology.

Well-being--Government policy.

Policy sciences.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The study of 'subjective wellbeing' has seen explosive growth in recent decades, opening important new discourses in personality and social psychology, happiness economics, and moral philosophy. Now it is moving into the policy domain. The book is an attempt to accelerate this new wave of scholarship and to provide a review of various ways complex theories of subjective wellbeing can be studied empirically.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Subjective Well-​Being

2. Problems with Subjective Well-​Being

3. The Analytical Philosophy of Wellbeing

4. The Subjective Wellbeing Production Function

5. The Capabilities Constraint

6. Hedonia

7. Eudaimonia

8. Conscience

9. The Coalescence of Being

10. Measuring Subjective Wellbeing

11. The Politics of Subjective Wellbeing

Conclusion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-763528-8

0-19-763529-6

0-19-763527-X