Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment

ISBN: 9780199267194 出版年：2003 页码：328 Dasgupta, Partha Oxford University Press

Summary and Guide Introduction: Means and Ends I VALUING AND EVALUATING Prologue 1. The Notion of Well-Being *1 Ordering Social States 2. Why Measure Well-Being? 3. Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being II MEASURING CURRENT WELL-BEING Prologue 4. Theory 5. Current Quality of Life in Poor Countries III MEASURING WELL-BEING OVER TIME Prologue 6. Intergenerational Well-Being *6 Intergenerational Conflicts 7. Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment 8. Valuing Goods 9. Wealth and Well-Being IV EVALUATING POLICIES IN IMPERFECT ECONOMIES Prologue 10. Policy Reforms 11. Discounting Future Consumption: How and Why 12. Institutional Responses to Policy Change V VALUING POTENTIAL LIVES Prologue 13. Some Views 14. Classical Utilitarianism and the Genesis Problem *14 Numbers and Well-Being under Classical Utilitarianism 15. Actual versus Potential Lives *15 Generation-Relative Utilitarianism Appendix