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A Happy Choice
Paul Frijters
Andrew E. Clark
Christian Krekel
Peter R. G. Layard
其他書名
Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
出版
Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
, 2019
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NSSwzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be based, emphasising the importance of acknowledging the political agency of citizens and thus their own evaluations of their life. We then turn to practicalities and consequences: how would one actually set up wellbeing-oriented decision-making and what difference should we expect from current practice? We end by discussing the current barriers to the adoption of wellbeing as the goal of government, both in terms of what we need to know more about and where the ideological barriers lay.