" Notions such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice are integral to evaluating social
progress and develo** policies. One increasingly influential way to think about these …

Housing has played a significant role in increasing inequality. It has been financialised and
losing its human and social dimensions. A critical review of housing policy directions is …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the bearing of theories of social justice on the
analysis and evaluation of income distribution and related features of economic inequality …

This paper aims to present a theoretical survey of the capability approach in an
interdisciplinary and accessible way. It focuses on the main conceptual and theoretical …

Today, as in the past, within a country at a given time those with higher incomes are, on
average, happier. However, raising the incomes of all does not increase the happiness of …

If human development is “multidimensional” then perhaps we need to discuss what we
mean by multidimensional: what is a dimension, and what are the multiple dimensions of …

Research by many feminist economists bears a set of common methodological features,
which Marilyn Power has identified as the social provisioning approach (SPA). This chapter …

While there is world-wide agreement on poverty reduction as an overriding goal of
development policy, there is little agreement on the definition of poverty. Four approaches to …

“A camel,” it has been said,“is a horse designed by a committee.” This might sound like a
telling example of the terrible deficiencies of committee decisions, but it is really much too …