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):

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

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:

Cover

Series

A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Works Cited

Index.

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