The individual welfare function of income

1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard M.S. Van Praag ◽  
Arie Kapteyn ◽  
Floor G. Van Herwaareden
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 897-919
Author(s):  
Katherine Hunt Federle

Abstract Vaccine hesitancy highlights a problem within current rights constructs under US law. Refusal to vaccinate is ineluctably cast as a contest between parental choice, to which the law traditionally defers, and state concerns for public safety and the individual welfare of children. But rarely is the discussion cast in terms of the child’s right to be vaccinated because our rights talk revolves around the capacity (or lack thereof) of the rights holder. If, however, we recast rights in terms of empowerment, then we can see that rights flow to the child, not because she has the requisite capacity but because she is less powerful. In this sense, rights exist for children because they are children. The authority of the state to mandate immunisation under US law also may be reconsidered because the state is acting to protect the rights of those less powerful – the children who cannot be vaccinated.


1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Kapteyn ◽  
Tom Wansbeek

Author(s):  
Ola Andersson ◽  
Pol Campos-Mercade ◽  
Fredrik Carlsson ◽  
Florian Schneider ◽  
Erik Wengström

Utilitas ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Holtug

According to outcome welfarism, roughly, the value of an outcome is fundamentally a matterof the individual welfare it contains. I assess various suggestions as to how to spell out this idea more fully on the basis of some basic intuitions about the content and implications of welfarism. I point out that what are in fact different suggestions are often conflated and argue that none fully captures the basic intuitions. I then suggest that what this means is that different doctrines of welfarism may be appropriate in different contexts and that when deciding on a particular doctrine, we need to consider which intuitions it does (and does not) accommodate. Finally, I consider the issue of just how a benefit must be related to an outcome in order to contribute to its value.


1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Booth

One of the most widely held views about Indonesia, and especially Java, in the nineteenth century was that such economic growth as occurred did not benefit the mass of the indigenous population, whose living standards almost certainly declined. Many scholars have drawn attention to the evidence that per capita rice production fell after 1880 as proof that living standards were definitely falling in the last two decades of the century, while others have not hesitated to draw the bolder conclusion that living standards declined almost continually after 1800:One theme stands out most prominently in Javanese society during this time: the theme of involution and reaction…. Despite the promises of the changing colonial policies to further the individual welfare of the Javanese, conspicuously little was done in this regard. Instead the Javanese farmer became gradually more impoverished throughout the whole of the nineteenth century, with a particularly severe drop in living standards in the second half of the liberal period (1885–1900).


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Wan Nornajwa Wan Othman ◽  
Fadzila Azni Ahmad

An ‘individual well-being ecosystem’ is a term that portrays a balanced situation between individuals that have a relationship among themselves in a system or between individuals and the surrounding elements in a system. The individual well-being ecosystem can be disrupted when something disrupts the balance in the ecosystem. One form of disruption is when the individual experiences stress. An example of a disruption in the balance of an individual’s well-being ecosystem is when a stressed individual is capable of jeopardising his or her life or the life of others in the ecosystem. Hence, the question is how Islam interprets this situation. How can stress management from an Islamic perspective be implemented in an individual well-being ecosystem? Therefore, this article had two objectives. First, the focus of this article was to identify the individual well-being ecosystem from an Islamic perspective. Second, it intended to analyse the individual well-being ecosystem from an Islamic perspective in stress management scope. Data from journals and books were analysed using the qualitative document analysis method. The findings showed that the well-being ecosystem according to Islam was related to the individual and elements possessed by the individual. The individual well-being ecosystem from an Islamic perspective is closely related with the three dimensions of well-being, namely the relations between mankind and Allah swt, relations amongst mankind and relations between mankind and nature as well as the four elements of well-being – physical, intellectual, social and spiritual.   Ekosistem kesejahteraan individu merupakan satu istilah yang menggambarkan tentang suasana keseimbangan antara individu-individu yang mempunyai hubungan antara satu sama lain dalam satu sistem atau keseimbangan antara individu dengan unsur-unsur sekelilingnya dalam sesebuah sistem. Ekosistem kesejahteraan individu ini boleh terganggu apabila wujud sesuatu yang mengganggu keseimbangan ekosistem tersebut. Salah satu daripadanya ialah individu yang mengalami stres. Contoh gangguan keseimbangan ekosistem kesejahteraan individu ialah individu yang stres mampu menyebabkan nyawanya dan nyawa individu lain dalam ekosistem terancam. Persoalannya, bagaimanakah Islam melihat perkara ini? Bagaimanakah pengurusan stres menurut perspektif Islam boleh dilaksanakan dalam ekosistem kesejahteraan individu? Justeru, artikel ini bertujuan menjawab dua objektif. Pertama, fokus artikel ini bakal mengenal pasti ekosistem kesejahteraan individu menurut perspektif Islam. Kedua, artikel ini bakal menganalisis ekosistem kesejahteraan individu menurut perspektif Islam dalam skop pengurusan stres. Kaedah yang digunakan dalam menganalisis data adalah dengan menggunakan kaedah analisis dokumen kualitatif ke atas jurnal dan buku. Dapatan kajian memperlihatkan ekosistem kesejahteraan menurut Islam berkait dengan individu dan unsur-unsur yang dimiliki individu. Ekosistem kesejahteraan individu menurut perspektif Islam didapati berkait rapat dengan kesejahteraan tiga dimensi - hubungan manusia dengan Allah,  hubungan manusia dengan manusia dan hubungan manusia dengan sumber alam serta kesejahteraan empat unsur – fizikal, intelektual, sosial dan spiritual.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Risa Sari Pertiwi ◽  
Sri Herianingrum ◽  
Aditya Kusuma

Unemployment in Indonesia is currently dominated by young people. Zakat as one of the Islamic social finance instruments which has a crucial impact in the socio-economic development of a country. The aim of this research is to explore the relationship between zakat institution support, the successful of youth empowerment program, and individual welfare by Al-Azhar Zakat Institution. This paper also develops a model for the youth empowerment programs that will have an impact on the individual welfare mustahik based on Maqashid Sharia indicators and mustahik social welfare. This study uses primary data with purposive sampling and uses quantitative approach a path model. The main finding of this research showed that success of youth empowerment program fully significant mediated the relationship between zakat institution support and individual welfare. The study contributes to the existing literatures and managerial implications for zakat institution in developing a youth empowerment model to increase social prosperity.


1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berend Wierenga

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian T. Ratchford

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