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O'Donnell, Gus and Oswald, Andrew J. (2015) National well-being policy and a weighted approach to human feelings. Ecological Economics, 120 . pp. 59-70. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.021 ISSN 0921-8009.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.021
Abstract
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data actually be used? This paper is a cautious attempt to contribute to thinking on that question. It suggests a possible weighting method to calculate first-order changes in society's well-being, discusses some of the potential principles of democratic ‘well-being policy’, and (as an illustrative example) reports data on how sub-samples of citizens believe feelings might be weighted.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ecological Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0921-8009 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 120 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 59-70 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.021 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 February 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 February 2017 | ||||||||
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