Multidimensional well-being, deprivation and inequality : conceptual issues and measurement / P. K. Pattanaik, Yongsheng Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pattanaik, Prasanta K.

Contributor:

Xu, Yongsheng.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2024.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: The Basic Analytical Framework

Chapter 2: Conceptions of Individual Well-Being

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Utility-Based Conception of Individual Well-Being

2.3 The Functioning and Capability Approach

2.4 Evaluation of Individual Well-Being and Value Judgments

Chapter 3: Valuation of Functioning Bundles and Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being

3.1 The Source of Values for Assessing an Individualś Well-Being and Comparing the Well-Being of Different Individuals

3.2 Minimal Relativism, Continuity, and Dominance: An Impasse

3.3 Comparison of Well-Being Differences

3.4 Top-Bottom Dominance and the Possibility of Making Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being

3.5 The Proofs

Chapter 4: Freedom and Individual Well-Being

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Measuring Freedom: The Number of Available Options

4.3 The Value of Freedom

4.4 Minimal Relativism, Continuity, Dominance, and the Assessment of Individual Freedom: An Impossibility Result

4.5 Assessment of Individual Well-Being When an Individualś Well-Being Depends on Her Achieved Functioning Bundle as well as ...

4.6 The Possibility of Making Interpersonal Comparisons of Freedom and Freedom Differences (resp. Well-Being and Well-Being Di...

4.7 Proofs

Chapter 5: Freedom: A Reexamination of the Concept

5.1 Competitive Equilibrium and the Consumers ́Freedom to Choose Functioning Bundles

5.2 An Individualś Freedom in a Situation of Strategic Interaction with Other Individuals

5.3 Some Alternative Formulations of the Notion of an Opportunity Set in the Framework of Game Theory

5.4 Concluding Remarks

Part II: Some Applications

Chapter 6: Measurement of Individual and Social Well-Being

6.1 Preliminaries

6.2 Individual Well-Being Functions

6.2.1 The Individual Well-Being Function When Each Attribute Can Take Only Finite and Discrete Values

6.2.2 The Individual Well-Being Function When All Attributes Are Cardinally Measurable.

6.3 Complementarity and Substitutability of Attributes

6.4 Social Well-Being Measure

6.5 The Social Well-Being Measure and Interpersonal Comparisons of Individual Well-Being

6.6 Proofs

Chapter 7: Measurement of Deprivation

7.1 An Approach to Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation

7.2 The Conventional Approach to Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation

7.3 The Two Approaches: Comparisons and Contrasts

7.4 Proofs

Chapter 8: The ``Column-First ́́Approach to the Measurement of Social Well-Being and Deprivation

8.1 Row-First and Column-First Approaches to the Measurement of Social Well-Being

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 17, 2024).

ISBN:

9783031620461

3031620461

Publisher Number:

90101292658

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