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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough : the worldwide evidence on well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2017
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on 91 countries from Gallup Analytics between 2009-2014 and borrowing insights from production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664189
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Wellbeing rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471233
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …
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A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118051
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
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