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      The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      It shows how, from the late 1960s to today, scholars around the world picked up the ancient Greeks’ question of the nature of a good life or life of a…

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      Philosophical Foundations of Quality of Life: The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments: The Selected Works of Alex. C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      The focus of this volume is on the further development of the Quality of Life Theory and the means to measure the concept.

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      Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments: The Selected Works of Alex. C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      The focus of this volume is on the further development of the Quality of Life Theory and the means to measure the concept.

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      Good Taxes: The Case for Taxing Foreign Currency Exchange and Other Financial Transactions

      Alex C. Michalos

      In Good Taxes, Alex Michalos puts forth an argument in favour of a financial transactions tax.

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      Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

      This is the first comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life. The encyclopedia covers health-related quality of life research, also the behavioral and…

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      Global Report on Student Well-Being: Life Satisfaction and Happiness

      Alex C. Michalos

      The project aims to explain global satisfaction and happiness as well as satisfaction in 12 domains: health, finances, family relations, paid employment, friendships, housing, living partner, recreation activity, religion, self-esteem…

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      Global Report on Student Well-Being: Volume II: Family, Friends, Living Partner, and Self-Esteem

      Alex C. Michalos

      Contents Preface vii 1 Literature Review 1 1. 1 Introduction 1 1. 2 Marriage and the Family ‘2 1. 3 Correlates of Family and Marital Satisfaction 3 1. 6 Self-Esteem…

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      Global Report on Student Well-Being: Volume III: Employment, Finances, Housing, and Transportation

      Alex C. Michalos

      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. As I indicated…

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      Global Report on Student Well-Being: Volume IV: Religion, Education, Recreation, and Health

      Alex C. Michalos

      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. The focus of…

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      How Good Policies and Business Ethics Enhance Good Quality of Life: The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      Ancient Views on the Quality of Life

      Alex C. Michalos

      This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition.

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      The Popper-Carnap Controversy

      Alex C. Michalos

      1 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a…

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      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

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      Connecting the Quality of Life Theory to Health, Well-being and Education: The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life. It describes relations between health survey and patients’ medical chart reviews, the health and quality…

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      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

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      North American Social Report: A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      North American Social Report: A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      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

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      The Pope of Happiness: A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven

      Veenhoven’s contributions include developing theories and measuring instruments, creating the world’s first and largest database of happiness research, founding the world’s first and most frequently cited Journal of Happiness Studies…

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      How Good Policies and Business Ethics Enhance Good Quality of Life: The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      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…

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      Connecting the Quality of Life Theory to Health, Well-being and Education: The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

      Alex C. Michalos

      This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life. It describes relations between health survey and patients’ medical chart reviews, the health and quality…

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      Essays on the Quality of Life

      Alex C. Michalos

      Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author’s unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation…

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      Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research: The Most Cited Articles Edited and Introduced by Alex C. Michalos

      Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement was founded by Alex C. An introductory essay written by Michalos explains the historical and scientific importance of each…

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      Essays on the Quality of Life

      Alex C. Michalos

      Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author’s unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation…

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      A Pragmatic Approach to Business Ethics

      Alex C. Michalos

      A pragmatic approach to business ethics is argued for in this volume, which demonstrates the usefulness of the approach by applying it to a variety of issues. These issues are…

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      A Life Devoted to Quality of Life: Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos

      Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos’ stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality…

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      A Life Devoted to Quality of Life: Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos

      Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos’ stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality…

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      Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

      This encyclopedia, edited by the past editors and founder of the Journal of Business Ethics, is the only reference work dedicated entirely to business and professional ethics.

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      Barometers of Quality of Life Around the Globe: How Are We Doing?

      Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s. Designed to capture nuances in local definitions of…

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      Barometers of Quality of Life Around the Globe: How Are We Doing?

      Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s. Designed to capture nuances in local definitions of…

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      Bernard Shaw

      This collection of 140 annotated letters, 74 of which have never been published, documents the subsequent friendship and collaboration shared by Shaw, Webb, and Webb’s wife Beatrice, throughout their lives.

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      Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research

      The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early…

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      Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research

      The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early…

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      Proceedings of the 1974 Biennial Meeting Philosophy of Science Association.

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      Citation Classics from the Journal of Business Ethics: Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication

      Founded in 1982 by Alex Michalos and Deborah Poff, the Journal of Business Ethics is the most frequently cited such journal in the world. This anniversary volume reproduces more than…

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