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- Title
Three questions about happiness.
- Authors
HELLIWELL, JOHN F.
- Abstract
The paper by Frijters, Clark, Krekel and Layard makes a strong historical case for treating happiness as a primary measure of human welfare. They argue that it is now time to revamp the science of policy-making to re-establish this central tradition, building on recent progress in measuring and understanding subjective wellbeing. I agree with them. There are three key questions raised in or by their presentation that need further evidence. I shall try to address these in turn. The questions relate to how to measure happiness, how to measure and deal with inequality and how to take due account of the social context of wellbeing, including the need to achieve consistency between individual and societal happiness.
- Subjects
SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology); HAPPINESS; SOCIAL context
- Publication
Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, Vol 4, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
2398-063X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/bpp.2019.41