Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness An Economic and Political Perspective

Freedom and the Pursuit of HappinessAn Economic and Political Perspective\nAuthor(s): Sebastiano Bavetta, Pietro Navarra, Dario Maimone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108713597, 978-1108713597\nSynopsis\nThis book is about the relationship between different concepts of freedom and happiness. The book's authors distinguish three concepts for which an empirical measure exists: opportunity to choose (negative freedom), capability to choose (positive freedom), and autonomy to choose (autonomy freedom). They also provide a comprehensive account of the relationship between freedom and well-being by comparing channels through which freedoms affect quality of life. The book also explores whether the different conceptions of freedom complement or replace each other in the determination of the level of well-being. In so doing, the authors make freedoms a tool for policy making and are able to say whic.