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In: Philosophischer Empirismus Bd. 1
In: Verdrängter Humanismus - verzögerte Aufklärung 1, Teilbd. 1
In: Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Studien 15
In: Critical review: a journal of politics and society, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 551-594
ISSN: 1933-8007
In: Critical review: an interdisciplinary journal of politics and society, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 551-594
ISSN: 0891-3811
Considers whether the contemporary built environment -- the ensemble of our humanly created surroundings -- makes us happy. This question prompts a consideration of the psychological dimensions of economic value, & of Tibor Scitovsky's revisions of standard economic theory in his The Joyless Economy: An Inquiry into Human Satisfaction and Consumer Dissatisfaction (1976). With Scitovsky as a starting point, a model of value based on modern complexity theory & a Maslow-like rendition of human needs can account for some of the more important exceptions to the law of diminished marginal utility, including those that may undermine the built environment in a market economy. 11 Figures, 26 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: History of European ideas, Volume 20, Issue 4-6, p. 931-936
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: History of European ideas, Volume 20, Issue 4-6, p. 931-936
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: History of European ideas, Volume 17, Issue 5, p. 688-690
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Filozofia: časopis Filozofického Ústavu Slovenskej Akadémie Vied, Volume 48, Issue 8, p. 514-520
ISSN: 0046-385X