Critical Review

 

Fall 1996 (Vol.10 No.4)

 

Introduction

• Preference or Happiness?, Tibor Scitovsky's Psychology of Human Needs, by Jeffrey Friedman

Symposium

• Rationalism, Joy and Freedom, by Amartya Sen

• What's Wrong with Consumer Capitalism?, The Joyless Economy after Twenty Years, by Juliet Schor

• The Diminishing Utility of Economic Growth:, From Maximizing Security toward Maximizing Subjective Well-Being, by Ronald Inglehart

• Melding the Public and Private Spheres:, Taking Commensality Seriously, by Albert O. Hirschman

• Complexity, Value, and the Psychological Postulates of Economics, by Michael Benedikt

• My Own Criticism of The Joyless Economy , by Tibor Scitovsky

  Review Essays

• Myth, Measurement, and the Minimum Wage: Sound and Fury Signifying What?, by Glen Whitman