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Amartya Sen has given contributions to ethics and philosophy of economics that have become milestones of contemporary debate. The criticism of the idea of happiness deserves special consideration by any scholar of subjective well-being and, in general, social scientists. In his vision and critique of happiness, most of Sen’s ideas of economics and philosophy are synthesized.
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Sen, A. (2009). The idea of justice (467 pp). Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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Bruni, L. (2019). Luigino Bruni Recommends “The Idea of Justice” by Amartya Sen. In: Frey, B., Schaltegger, C. (eds) 21st Century Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17740-9_8
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