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Well-being in contemporary society
This anthology examines the practical role of well-being in contemporary society. It discusses developments such as globalization, consumerism and the rapid innovation and use of new and emerging technologies and focuses on the significant impact of these developments on the well-being of people living today.
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The politics of happiness
During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine the extent to which income, family, religion, and other factors are associated with the satisfaction people feel about their lives. The Gallup organization has begun conducting global surveys of happiness, and several countries are considering publishing periodic reports on the growth or decline of happiness among their people. One nation, tiny Bhutan, has actually made \"Gross National Happiness\" the central aim of its domestic policy. How might happiness research affect government policy in the United States--and beyond? In The Politics of Happiness, former Harvard president Derek Bok examines how governments could use the rapidly growing research data on what makes people happy--in a variety of policy areas to increase well-being and improve the quality of life for all their citizens.
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Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women’s acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulation, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes toward their own poverty or suffering are all examples of “adaptive preferences,” wherein women participate in their own deprivation. This book offers a definition of adaptive preference and a moral framework for responding to adaptive preferences in development practice. The book defines adaptive preferences as deficits in the capacity to lead a flourishing human life that are causally related to deprivation and argues that public institutions should conduct deliberative interventions to transform the adaptive preferences of deprived people. It insists that people with adaptive preferences can experience value distortion, but it explains how this fact does not undermine those people’s claim to participate in designing development interventions that determine the course of their lives. The book claims that adaptive preference identification requires a commitment to moral universalism, but this commitment need not be incompatible with a respect for culturally variant conceptions of the good. She illustrates her arguments with examples from real-world development practice. Its deliberative perfectionist approach moves us beyond apparent impasses in the debates about internalized oppression and autonomous agency, relativism and universalism, and feminism and multiculturalism.
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Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries
A large empirical literature has debated the existence of a U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in 145 countries, including 109 developing countries, controlling for education and marital and labor force status, among others, on samples of individuals under the age of 70. The U-shape of the curve is forcefully confirmed, with an age minimum, or nadir, in midlife around age 50 in separate analyses for developing and advanced countries as well as for the continent of Africa. The happiness curve seems to be everywhere. While panel data are largely unavailable for this issue, and the findings using such data largely confirm the cross-section results, the paper discusses insights on why cohort effects do not drive the findings. I find the age of the minima has risen over time in Europe and the USA.
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Postgrowth and wellbeing : challenges to sustainable welfare
Presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more compatible with limits to growth. Drawing on theories of social practices, the book explores structural barriers to transitions to a postgrowth society, and ends with suggestions for policies and institutions that could support wellbeing in the context of postgrowth.
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Reconfiguraciones territoriales en la costa atlántica bonaerense: cruces entre cambio demográfico y bienestar
En Argentina, desde principios del siglo XX es notoria la concentración poblacional en áreas urbanas, multiplicándose los problemas derivados de la aglomeración. En este marco, algunas pequeñas localidades han adquirido otros roles. En consecuencia, suman a la prestación de servicios agropecuarios o actividades recreativo-turísticas y de segunda residencia, funciones para la residencia permanente. Con frecuencia su crecimiento se hace sin planificación, abarcando territorios con escasa infraestructura y servicios. Estos déficits se compensarían en la vida cotidiana con los beneficios de residir en áreas calificadas como seguras, verdes o tranquilas. De esta forma, se propone analizar de forma diacrónica y transversal la dinámica demográfica (1991-2010) y el bienestar de la población (2001-2010), así como su vinculación en General Pueyrredon y Mar Chiquita (provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). El enfoque metodológico es cuantitativo basado en el análisis de datos censales, con uso de técnicas estadísticas y sistemas de información geográfica. Los resultados obtenidos permiten indicar que los cambios se han acelerado desde la década de 1990 en aquellas localizaciones con mayor atractivo para la población. Asimismo, este proceso no produjo deterioros generalizados en el bienestar, situación que ha presentado mayoritariamente escasas variaciones, pero con distinciones según el tamaño demográfico de los poblados.
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