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Well-Being as the Object of Moral Consideration

Economics and Philosophy, 1998
An adequate moral theory must take (at least) each person into account in some way. Some think that the appropriate way to take an agent into account morally involves a consequentialist form of promoting something about her. Others suggest instead that morality requires a Kantian form of respecting something about an agent.
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Objective and Subjective Consumer Financial Well-Being

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
In recent years, consumer financial decision making has moved into the academic research and policy making spotlights, motivated not only by increased concern with the financial protection of vulnerable individuals but also due to the ascendance of well-being as an important policy making objective.
Carsten Erner, Craig R. Fox, John Chalekian, Gabriel De La Rosa, Christopher Trepel   +4 more
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Objective measures of well-being and the cooperative production problem

Social Choice and Welfare, 1997
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Well‐being for all as a human development objective

Society and Business Review, 2008
PurposeWhile defining the well‐being for all as the objective of human development, this paper aims to draw attention to the deficiencies resulting from the “simplification” inherent in its implementation, especially by institutions, and to the advantages to be derived from determining the concept's policy implications and the ensuing priorities and ...
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Defending the Objective List Theory of Well‐Being

Ratio, 2013
AbstractThe objective list theory of well‐being holds that a plurality of basic objective goods directly benefit people. These can include goods such as loving relationships, meaningful knowledge, autonomy, achievement, and pleasure. The objective list theory is pluralistic (it does not identify an underlying feature shared by these goods) and ...
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The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies: Well-Being as the Experience of Being Well

2017
This chapter addresses conceptualization issues in the study of people’s well-being. The chapter states that the object of well-being studies is the experience of being well people have; as such, the object of study is inherently subjective because it cannot exist without the specific person who is experiencing it.
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Subjective Well-Being and Kahneman’s ‘Objective Happiness’

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2005
This paper is an attempt to clarify the relation between, on the one hand, the construct of ‘objective happiness’ recently proposed by Daniel Kahneman and, on the other hand, the principal focus of happiness studies, namely subjective well-being (SWB). I have two aims.
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Walking and Its Contribution to Objective Well-Being

Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2019
Walking contributes to well-being in more than health-related ways. This paper adds a new perspective to the walkability agenda by introducing the concept of objective well-being. Objective well-being is the view that our well-being is dependent on the successful development and exercise of our various human capacities.
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The Subjectivity Inherent in Objective Measures of Well-Being

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2008
Claims abound that GDP accounting ignores social and ecological problems and misrepresents social well-being. While GDP growth continues to be a policy priority in most countries, it is at best one objective among many in achieving humanity’s “ultimate purpose.” Yet revisions to the income accounts and alternative well-being indicators are also ...
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Objective Well-Being

2023
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