Alex C Michalos: 16 books
Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments
The Selected Works of Alex. C. Michalos
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The focus of this volume is on the further development of the Quality of Life Theory and the means to measure the concept. The volume summarizes Michalos’ fundamental assumptions about the nature of quality of life or human well-being and explains in detail the two variable theory of the quality...
Philosophical Foundations of Quality of Life
The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos’ work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value. After distinguishing things that have value from the value that things might have,...
Good Taxes
The Case for Taxing Foreign Currency Exchange and Other Financial Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Financial transactions taxes are in force in all the major developed countries except the USA and Canada. Typically the tax is 0.25% or less, paid whenever stocks and shares or bonds, etc. change hands. The tax originally proposed by Tobin would be a new tax applicable to all international transactions...
How Good Policies and Business Ethics Enhance Good Quality of Life
The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This volume provides bridges from the social sciences to business ethics and from the latter to the quality of life, by connecting the research themes of quality of life, social sciences, including public policy-making, and business ethics or corporate responsibility. It builds on the premise that...
Connecting the Quality of Life Theory to Health, Well-being and Education
The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life. It includes discussions of Galen’s and Harvey’s views of the movement of blood in human bodies, and differences in the research traditions of social indicators research and health-related quality...
Trade Barriers to the Public Good
Free Trade and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Trade Barriers to the Public Good provides a detailed examination of NAFTA and AIT cases involving MMT - a chemical additive brought into Canada by the US company Ethyl Corporation Inc. When the Canadian federal government banned the importation of MMT under the Fuel Additives Act, Ethyl Corp. filed...
Global Report on Student Well-Being
Volume IV: Religion, Education, Recreation, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the essential features of the...
Global Report on Student Well-Being
Volume III: Employment, Finances, Housing, and Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the es sential features of the...
Global Report on Student Well-Being
Volume II: Family, Friends, Living Partner, and Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the essential features of the...
North American Social Report
A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974.Vol. 5: Economics, Religion and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the first, some in troductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all five volumes to measure the qUality of life. In the frrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social...
by Alex C. Michalos
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from...
North American Social Report
A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the ftrst, some introductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all ftve volumes to measure the quality of life. In the ftrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social indicators...
Environment, Transportation, and Housing
A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974. Vol. 4: Environment, Transportation and Housing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the first, some in troductory remarks are in orde{about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all five volumes to measure the quality of life. In the first chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social...
North American Social Report
A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974.Vol. 1: Foundations, Population and Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It would have been nice to have been able to write this book with the style of Mailer, the wit of Shaw, the breadth of Myrdal and the zeal of Nader. It would also have been miraculous. Rest assured there are no miracles here. On the contrary, the work in your hands undoubtedly bears all the marks...
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