Authors:Bernard van Praag, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: approach, calculus, satisfaction, quantified, happiness
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0199226148
ISBN-13: 9780199226146

How do we measure happiness? This important and long-awaited book presents a new and unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses of German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, it develops new methodology to establish a model of well-being which includes satisfaction with life as a whole and with various domains of life. This method is applied to study individual and collective norms, to construct family-equivalence scales, to estimate health damages, compensation for externalities, and the construction of tax tariffs, and to de

Authors:Rudolf Avenhaus, Morton John Canty,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: verification, data, introduction, quantified, compliance
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1996-06-13
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0521553660
ISBN-13: 9780521553667

International agreements, such as those governing arms control and the environment, virtually always require some degree of verification so that compliance can be established. To ensure that the verification process is regarded as efficient, effective and impartial, it is important to model it mathematically. One such model can be derived by applying methods from statistics and the theory of noncooperative games, developed in part by John Nash, who received a Nobel Prize in 1994 for his work. The methods permit the development of rational verification strategies, as well as such fundamental co

Authors:Gjalt Huppes, Gjalt Huppes;Masanobu Ishikawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: eco, efficiency, science, industry, quantified
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-02-21
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 1402053983
ISBN-13: 9781402053986

Eco-efficiency has long been a concept: the intention of reducing environmental impact while increasing environmental value. Its origins are with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. However, in a globalized world with sustained economic growth environmental degradation is threatening. Macro level requirements on sustainability should be reflected in the eco-efficiency of choices at a micro level, like on technologies, supply chains and product systems. Eco-efficiency analysis has come to fruition as a fully quantified method for analysis, linking to specific domains of econ