Add to ORKGRegardless of the motivation and intention behind it, the move to base government policy on measures of happiness is fraught with problems at every level, argues Mark D. White. Reorienting policy towards happiness suffers from problems of definition, measurement, and implementation
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing ...
The debate surrounding the use of subjective measures of well-being for policy purposes has intensif...
In this article Michael Rustin argues that greater well-being is unlikely to be promoted in a system...
There are significant problems with statistics-based policy, argues Mark D. White. He writes that go...
The growing acceptance of subjective wellbeing (or ‘happiness’) measures for public policy purposes ...
Happiness and well-being are central to every part of our lives, but how do we become happier as a s...
This Article provides a comprehensive, critical overview of proposals to use happiness surveys for s...
"Happiness research" studies the correlates of subjective well-being, generally through survey metho...
Some academics and policymakers have argued that happiness (or subjective well‐being) should be used...
This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness I...
Policy-making that re-presents – as objects of concern and by means of statistics – the suffering or...
Since David Cameron announced his intention to measure the country’s happiness in 2010 there has bee...
The ongoing research activity of economists who study what constitutes happiness and make recommenda...
This author examines subjective indicators of well-being as they relate to the happiness movement, a...
This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness I...
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing ...
The debate surrounding the use of subjective measures of well-being for policy purposes has intensif...
In this article Michael Rustin argues that greater well-being is unlikely to be promoted in a system...
There are significant problems with statistics-based policy, argues Mark D. White. He writes that go...
The growing acceptance of subjective wellbeing (or ‘happiness’) measures for public policy purposes ...
Happiness and well-being are central to every part of our lives, but how do we become happier as a s...
This Article provides a comprehensive, critical overview of proposals to use happiness surveys for s...
"Happiness research" studies the correlates of subjective well-being, generally through survey metho...
Some academics and policymakers have argued that happiness (or subjective well‐being) should be used...
This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness I...
Policy-making that re-presents – as objects of concern and by means of statistics – the suffering or...
Since David Cameron announced his intention to measure the country’s happiness in 2010 there has bee...
The ongoing research activity of economists who study what constitutes happiness and make recommenda...
This author examines subjective indicators of well-being as they relate to the happiness movement, a...
This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness I...
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing ...
The debate surrounding the use of subjective measures of well-being for policy purposes has intensif...
In this article Michael Rustin argues that greater well-being is unlikely to be promoted in a system...