The Illusion of Well-Being: Economic Policymaking Based on Respect and Responsiveness

by Mark D. White

Book Overview

The use of measures of economic output to guide policymaking has been criticized for decades because of their weak ties to human well-being. Recently, many scholars and politicians have called for measures of happiness or subjective well-being to be used to guide policy in people's true interests. In The Illusion of Well-Being, Mark D. White explains why using happiness as a tool for policymaking is misguided and unethical. Happiness is too vague...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137364661
• ISBN13: 9781137364661
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"