{"product_id":"well-being-and-fair-distribution","title":"Well-Being and Fair Distribution","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, author Matthew D. Adler provides readers with a comprehensive, philosophically grounded argument for the use of social welfare functions as a framework for governmental policy analysis--a framework that is welfarist but not utilitarian, and sensitive to the distribution of human well-being.Well-Being and Fair Distribution addresses a range of relevant\n\u003cbr\u003etheoretical issues, including the nature of well-being and the possibility of interpersonal welfare comparisons; the moral value of equality, and how that bears on the form of the social welfare function; social choice under\n\u003cbr\u003euncertainty; and the integration of individual responsibility into the social-welfare function approach. Adler also explores issues of implementation by looking at how survey data and other sources of evidence might be used to calibrate both a well-being metric and a social welfare function, and discussing whether distributive goals are ever best pursued through regulation rather than the tax system. In working through this range of theoretical and practical issues, Well-Being and Fair\n\u003cbr\u003eDistribution draws from a wide variety of literatures, including philosophical scholarship on equality, \"prioritarianism,\" responsibility, well-being, and personal identity over time; the social choice\n\u003cbr\u003eliterature within economics; applied economic literatures concerning the measurement of inequality and poverty; legal and policy-analytic scholarship on cost-benefit analysis, environmental justice, and the choice between regulation and taxation; and the burgeoning field of \"happiness studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156352626926,"sku":"9780195384994","price":314.28,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195384994.jpg?v=1706256951","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/well-being-and-fair-distribution","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}