Abstract
This chapter examines the relationship between well-being and social justice. It addresses the question, ‘Equality of What’? After considering resources, opportunities and preference satisfaction as answers to this question, this chapter proposes that well-being is the appropriate ‘currency of justice’. However, ‘well-being’ is a contested concept. Empirical data relating to the 2007–2010 economic crisis highlight the shortcomings of subjective well-being (happiness and satisfaction) as a reliable source of information for socially just public policy. In contrast, the Capabilities Approach to well-being brings together the most important aspects of resources, opportunities, and subjective states. This chapter concludes that equality of well-being, defined in terms of capabilities, provides the strongest, most defensible account of egalitarian social justice, and the foundations of a just society.
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