The Easterlin paradox concerns slight or negligible increases in personal satisfaction reported as income rises beyond high middle income levels. Sister paradoxes highlighted by Easterbrook and Schwartz concern the frequent low or negligible impact on personal satisfaction of improvements in...

This introduction to a Special Issue provides a conceptual framework connecting the themes of human security, well-being and human development, and sustainability. Inter-connections between each of these three themes are possible. The connecting concepts are freedoms, rights, responsibilities,...

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Amartya Sen's 1998 Nobel Prize and his recent synthesis of his views in Development as Freedom provide an opportunity to assess his intellectual contribution and style. The paper identifies entitlements analysis and capabilities analysis as the areas which make him stand out for wider audiences...

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