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The promotion of wellbeing: A primer for policymakers [PDF]
, 2010 There is growing international interest among policymakers in the promotion of wellbeing as an objective of public policy. Recent advances in the definition and measurement of wellbeing are giving rise to an increasingly detailed picture of the factors
Rablen, MD
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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational design: epistemic quality, incentive compatibility, and control.
Chi Kwok, Chris Man‐Kong Li
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2001: The Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s [PDF]
In this chapter, John Helliwell sets the scene for many of the papers that follow by providing an up-to-date and lucid survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being.
Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director +3 more
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Will I Regret This? Should I Care? On Regret and Wellbeing
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regret colours many areas of our lives, from the vital to the trivial. One example is in medical decision‐making, when physicians hesitate to provide procedures they think their patients will regret. For instance, physicians sometimes refuse younger women's requests for elective sterilization. Hesitating when we believe that we or someone else
Alyssa Izatt
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Systematic review of the association between commuting, subjective wellbeing and mental health
Travel Behaviour & Society, 2022 Jiakun Liu, D. Ettema, M. Helbich
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
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, 2016 We compare two alternative ways of measuring workers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for four non-standard working arrangements: flexitime, part-time, night work, and rotating shifts.
Bryan, Mark L., Geraci, Andrea
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Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Self‐conceptions provide a framework through which we can make sense of ourselves, interpret and navigate the world, plan our lives, and relate to others. Relational influences can greatly shape them, for instance, when others react to us or offer advice. What if this ‘other’ is not a human being, but an AI?
Muriel Leuenberger
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School Quality, Child Wellbeing and Parents Satisfaction [PDF]
Researchers in economics of education usually assume that parents choose schools for their high academic performance, with some support from revealed preference evidence based on local house prices.
Olmo Silva, Steve Gibbons
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