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A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making: History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples
Contributor(s): Frijters, Paul (Author), Krekel, Christian (Author)
ISBN: 0192896806     ISBN-13: 9780192896803
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $118.75  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: July 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
- Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues
- Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development
Dewey: 361.61
LCCN: 2020949071
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.90 lbs) 464 pages
 
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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.