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A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making - History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples (Hardcover)
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A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making - History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples (Hardcover)
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Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the
subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy
evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to
move from using GDP to using subjective wellbeing as the primary
metric for measuring economic and societal progress? Would policy
priorities change? Would we continue to care about economic growth?
What role would different government institutions play in such a
scenario? And, most importantly, how could this be implemented in
daily practice, for example in policy evaluations and appraisals of
government analysts, or in political agenda-setting at the top
level? This volume provides answers to these questions from a
conceptual to technical level, by showing how direct measures of
subjective wellbeing can be used for policy evaluation and
appraisal, either complementary in the short-run or even entirely
in the long-run. It gives a brief history of the idea that
governments should care about the happiness of their citizens,
provides theories, makes suggestions for direct measurement,
derives technical standards and makes suggestions on how to conduct
wellbeing cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses, and gives
examples of how real-world policy evaluations and appraisals would
change if they were based on subjective wellbeing. In doing so, it
serves the growing interest of governments as well as
non-governmental and international organisations in how to put
subjective wellbeing metrics into policy practice.
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