) or “happiness.” Researchers have made great strides in replicating and validating their findings about happiness, and … world leaders have called for this research to be used to supply SWB-based metrics and tools as alternatives to the existing …-being analysis (WBA) — which uses happiness data to analyze prospective policies more accurately than does cost-benefit analysis …

accounts of individual well-being: while standard economics is based on preference-satisfaction accounts, the economics of … happiness is based on mental-state accounts, and the social-indicators / capability approach on objective-list accounts …. Moreover, it argues that at least standard economics and the economics of happiness are based on some utilitarian social …