[태그:] Public policy

This article summarises recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well‐being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well‐being beyond those flowing through economic channels. Cross‐national samples (supported by parallel analysis of suicide data) show large well‐being effects from the quality of government. Finally, using ...

Happiness research is based on the idea that it is fruitful to study empirical measures of individual welfare. The most common is the answer to a simple well-being question such as "Are you Happy?" Hundreds of thousands of individuals have been asked this question, in many countries and over many years. Researchers have begun to use these data to tackle a variety of important questions ...

 The theory behind public economics needs radical reform. It fails to explain the recent history of human welfare and it ignores some of the key findings of modern psychology. Indeed these two failings are intimately linked: it is because the theory ignores psychology that it is unable to explain the facts. The fact is that, despite massive increases in purchasing power, people in the West are ...

초록 없음 Layard, R. (1980). Human satisfactions and public policy. The Economic Journal, 90(360), 737-750.DOI: 10.2307/2231740