The Illusion of Well-Being: Economic Policymaking Based on Respect and Responsiveness
The use of measures of economic output to guide policymaking has been criticized for decades because of their weak ties to human well-being. Recently, many scholars and politicians have called for measures of happiness or subjective well-being to be used to guide policy in people's true interests.In The Illusion of Well-Being, Mark D. White explains why using happiness as a tool for policymaking is misguided and unethical. Happiness is too vague a term to define, and too general a concept, to measure in a way that captures people's true feelings. He extends this critique to well-being in general and concludes that no measure of well-being can…
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- ISBN: 978-1-137-36465-4
- EAN: 9781137364654
- Produktnummer: 16491482
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 404 g
- Auflage: 2014
- Gewicht: 404
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Mark D. White
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