The Illusion of Well-Being Economic Policymaking Based on Respect and Responsiveness /

• Main Author: White, Mark D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• Subjects: Political economy.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Economic theory.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Economic Policy.; Political Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Political Economy.
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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 interes...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Happiness . . . in which we try to stop a bad idea before it grabs hold
• 2. Well-Being . . . in which we cast a wider net and catch a much larger fish
• 3. Interests . . . in which we clarify what's really important
• 4. Respect . . . in which we explain how things ought to be done.