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SUMMARY:The Relative Merits of Alternative Goals of Development: Happiness
 \, Income or Human - Frances Stewart\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20150513T170000Z
DTEND:20150513T183000Z
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Speaker:*\nFrances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Developme
 nt Economics\, University of Oxford. Her research has focused on appropria
 te technology\; basic needs\; adjustment and poverty\; development during 
 conflict\; group behaviour\; horizontal inequalities\; and human developme
 nt. She has been director of Oxford’s Department of International Develo
 pment and Chair of the United Nation’s Committee on Development Policy. 
 Books include Technology and Underdevelopment (Macmillan 1976)\; and Plann
 ing to Meet Basic Needs (1985)\; she was co-author of UNICEF’s influenti
 al study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP 1987) and of War and Underdevel
 opment (OUP 2001)\; and editor of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Un
 derstanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (Palgrave\, 2008).\n\n
 *Talk Overview:*\nFrances Stewart will consider the relative merits of hap
 piness\, income\, and Human development as goals of development.  It will 
 argue that happiness\, like income\, has many defects as the unique measur
 e of progress: apart from huge measurement problems which render measures 
 rather arbitrary\, people adapt to their circumstances so happiness can be
  high even when people are deprived in multiple areas\; future generations
  cannot be surveyed\, and consequently it may lead to neglect of their wel
 lbeing  and issues of sustainability\; it can distort policy with a focus 
 on making poor people content with their condition rather than trying to i
 mprove it.  The talk will argue that we should aim to enhance human develo
 pment and realize human rights\, rather than to maximize a somewhat arbitr
 ary measure of happiness.\n\nAll welcome to attend.\n
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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