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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-36115-8
- EAN: 9781137361158
- Produktnummer: 17042327
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'036 KB
Über den Autor
Mark D. White is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA, where he teaches courses in philosophy, economics, and law. He is the author of four books, including The Illusion of Well-Being (2014) and The Manipulation of Choice (2013), plus over forty journal articles and book chapters in the intersections between his three fields. He has also edited or co-edited a number of books, including Retributivism (2011), The Thief of Time (with Chrisoula Andreou, 2010), and Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (2009), and he is the editor of the Perspectives from Social Economics series at Palgrave Macmillan.
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