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VIEWS ON HAPPINESS: Views on happiness in philosophy Schools of philosophical thought Utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism, greatest happiness principle, greater happiness for greater number, Bentham, utility, consequentialism
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Authors Title / Source Year VanAsperen, G.M. Met de Beste Bedoelingen... - Over de Ideologie van de Verzorgingsstaat. (With the Best Intentions.... - About the Ideology of the Welfare State.)
Filosofie & Praktijk, 1981, Vol. 4, 167 - 180
1981
Barrow, R. Utilitarianism: A Contemporary Statement.
Edward Elger Publishing Limited, 1991, UK
1991
DeBeus, J.W. Economie, Eudemonie en de Welzijnsstaat. (Economy, Eudaimonia and the Welfare State).
Beleid en Maatschappij, 1987, Vol. 5, 196 - 207
1987
Griffin, J. Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance.
Clarendon Press, 1986, Oxford, UK
1986
MacKaye, J. The Economy of Happiness.
Little & Brow, 1906, Boston, USA
1906
Mauzi, M.R. L'Idée du Bonheur dans la Littérature et la Pensée Française au 18e Siècle. (The Idea of Happiness in French Thought in the 18th Century.)
Librairie Armand Colin,1960, Paris, France
1960
Kalin, M.G. The Utopian Flight from Unhappiness: Freud against Marx on Social Progress.
Nelson-Hall, 1974, Chicago, USA
1974
Lane, R.E. The Market Experience.
Cambridge University Press, 1991, New York, USA
1991
Glover, J. What Sort of People Should There Be?
Penguin Books, 1984, UK
1984
Smart, J.J.; Williams, B. Utilitarianism. For and Against.
Cambridge University Press, 1973, London, UK.
1973
Crisp, R. Mill on Utilitarianism.
Routledge, 1997, London, UK
1997
Sandoe, P.; Kappel, K. Changing Preferences: Conceptual Problems in Comparing Health Related Quality of Life.
Nordenfelt, L.;Ed.: "Concepts and Measurement of Quality-of-Life in Health Care", Kluwer, 1994, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 161 -180
1994
Moum, T. Needs, Rights and Resources in Quality of Life Research.
Nordenfelt, L.;Ed.: "Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care", Kluwer, 1994, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 79 - 93
1994
Lumer, C. The Greenhouse. A Welfare Assessment and Some Morals.
University Press of America, 2002, USA
2002
Veenhoven, R. Het Grootste Geluk voor het Grootste Aantal: Geluk als Richtsnoer voor het Beleid. (The Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number. Happiness as an Aim for Public Policy).
Sociale Wetenschappen, 2002, Vol. 4, 1 - 43
2002
Bruni, L. The "Technology of Happiness" and the Tradition of Economic Science.
Bruni, L., Luigi, Porta, P.(Eds).: "Handbook on the Economics of Happiness'', Edward Elgar, 2007, UK, 24 - 52
2007
Guidi, M.E. On Some Asymmetries between Pain and Pleasure. Bentham "Felicific Calculus" and His Critique of Locke and His Followers.
Bruni, L.;Luigi Porta, P.;Eds.: "Handbook on the Economics of Happiness'', Edward Elgar, 2007, UK, 68 - 94
2007
Collard, D. Research on Well-Being: Some Advice from Jeremy Bentham.
WeD Working Paper 02, ESRL Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries, 2003, Bath, UK
2003
Layard, R. Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue?
London School of Economics, 2003, Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture 2002/3, London, UK
2002
Layard, R. Happiness. Lessons from a New Science.
Penguin, 2005, New York, USA
2005
Layard, R. Annexes to 'Happiness'.
see URL
2005
Porter, R. Happy Hedonists.
British Medical Journal, 2000, Vol. 321, 1572 - 1575
2000
Lane, R.E. After the End of History.
The University of Michigan Press, 2006, Ann Arbor, USA
2006
Sirgy, M.J.; Ferriss, A.L.; Michalos, A.C. The Quality of Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future.
Social Indicators Research, 2006, Vol. 76, 343 - 466
2006
Nussbaum, M.C. Mill between Aristotle and Bentham.
Daedalus, 2004, Vol. 133, 60 -68
2004
Elchardus, M.; Smits, W. Het Grootste Geluk.( The Greatest Happiness).
LannooCampus, 2007, Leuven, Belgium
2007
Brandt, R.B. Fairness to Happiness.
Social Theory and Practice, 1989, Vol.15, 33 - 58
1989
Stace, W.T. Happiness.
Stace, W.T.: "The Concept of Morals", The Macmillan Company, 1937, New York, USA, 126 - 159
1937
Gauthier, D.P. Progress and Happiness: a Utilitarian Reconsideration.
Ethics, 1967, Vol 78, 77 - 82
1967
Loewenstein, G.; Ubel, P.A. Hedonic Adaptation and the Role of Decision and the Experience Utility in Public Policy.
Journal of Public Economics, 2008, Vol. 92, 1795 - 1810
2006
Comim, F. Capabilities and Happiness: Potential Synergies.
Review of Social Economy, 2005, Vol.63, 165 - 176.
2005
Bentham, J. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
see URL
1789
Duncan, G. Should Happiness-Maximization be the Goal of Government.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, Vol. 11, Nr. 2, 163-178.
2010
Tännsjö, T. Narrow Hedonism.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007, Vol.8, 79 - 98
2007
Brülde, B. Happiness Theories of the Good Life.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007, Vol. 8, 15 - 49.
2007
Bergsma, A. Imperfectly Happy.
Doctoral Dissertation, 2011, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
2011
Layard, R. The Greatest Happiness Principle; Its Time Has Come.
Journal for Institutional Comparisons, 2010, Vol. 8, 26 - 32
2010
Brülde, B.; Bykvist, K. Happiness, Ethics, and Politics; Introduction, History and Conceptual Framework.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, Vol. 11, 541 - 551
2010
Sprigge, T.L. The Greatest Happiness Principle.
Utilitas, 1991, Vol. 8, 1 - 51
1991
Read, D. Utility Theory from Jeremy Bentham to Daniel Kahneman.
Working Paper No: LSEOR 04-64, 2004, London, UK
2004
Vijayamohanan, P.N; Asalatha, B.P. "All’s Well That Ends Well!" Subjective Wellbeing: An Epistemic Enquiry.
MPRA Paper No. 45004, 2013, Trivandrum, India
2013
Frey, B.S.; Gallus, J. Subjective Well-Being and Policy.
Topoi, 2013, Vol. 32, 207 - 212
2013
Hoag, R.W. Happiness and Freedom: Recent Work on John Stuart Mill.
Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1986, Vol. 15, 188 - 199
1986
Mitchell, W.C. Bentham's Felicific Calculus.
Political Science Quarterly, 1918, Vol. 33, 161 - 183
1918
Rosen, F. Individual Sacrifice and the Greatest Happiness: Bentham on Utility and Rights.
Utilitas, 1998, Vol. 10, 129 - 143
1998
Ng, Y.K. Utility, Informed Preference, or Happiness: Following Harsanyi's Argument to its Logical Conclusion.
Social Choice and Welfare, 1999, Vol. 16, 197 - 216
1999
Peart, S.J.; Levy, D.M. Sympathy and its Discontents: ‘Greatest Happiness’ Versus the ‘General Good’
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2004, Vol. 11, 453 - 478
2004
Sobel, D. Full Information Accounts of Well-Being.
Ethics, 1994, Vol. 104, 784 - 801
1994
Sobel, D. Well-Being as the Object of Moral Consideration.
Economics and Philosophy, 1998, Vol. 14, 249 - 281
1998
Bramble, B. Whole- Life Welfarism
American Philosophical Quarterly, 2014, Vol. 51, 63 - 74
2014
Bramble, B. The Role of Pleasure in Well-Being.
Forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being, 2015, 1 -14, Vienna, Austria
2015
Vallentyne, P. Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis.
ANALYSIS, 2012, Vol. 73, 542 - 548
2012
Schwartz, P. Happiness is not within the Government's Remit: The Philosophical Flaw in Happiness Economics.
Booth, Ph.; Eds.:" ..and the Pursuit of Happiness", The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012, London, UK, 222 - 245
2012
Dacanay, J.C. Beyond Rational Choice and Needs Gratification: Philosophical-Anthropological Perspectives of Happiness Economics as Human Flourishing
Ramiz, A.A. and Gomez, F.J.I. (Eds). Work in a Human Economy, 2018, Quale anima per il lavoro professionale, vol. IV, ESC, Rome, Italy
2018
Schokkaert, E Capabilities and Satisfaction with Life.
Journal of Human Development, 2007, Vol. 8, 415 - 430
2007
Berger, F.R. Happiness, Justice, and Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill
University of California Press, 1984.
1984
Clydesdale, G. Happiness, Welfare and Ethics: Dissonant Consequences and Conflicting Values.
International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2015, Vol. 2, 137 - 158
2015
Bayertz, K. Happiness by Maximization?
Brockman, H. and Delhey, J. (Eds.) "Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization. Is more Always Better?", 2013, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
2013
Veenhoven, R. Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number.
Alex C. Michalos (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2014, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2612 - 2613
2014
Sen, A. The Economics of Happiness and Capability
Bruni, L. and Comim, F. (Eds.): "Capabilities and Happiness", 2008, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 16-27
2008
Edgeworth, F.Y. The Hedonical Calculus
Mind, 1879, Vol. 4, 394 - 408
1879
Veenhoven, R. Happiness in nations: Pursuit of greater happiness for a greater number of citizens
Chapter 19 in Snyder, C.R., Lopez, S. J., Edwards, L.M. & Marques, S.C. Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, New York USA, pp 265-278
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