Wellbeing : science and policy
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Wellbeing : science and policy
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms our ability to base our decisions on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future generations. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, this book shows how wellbeing can be measured, what causes it and how it can be improved. Its findings are profoundly relevant to all social sciences, including psychology, economics, politics, behavioural science and sociology. A field-defining text on a new science that aims to span the whole of human life, this will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, policy-makers and employers, who can apply its insights in their professional and private lives. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Case for Wellbeing: 1. What subjective wellbeing is and why it matters
- 2. Wellbeing as the goal for society
- Part II. Human Nature and Wellbeing: 3. How our behaviour affects our wellbeing
- 4. How our thoughts affect our wellbeing
- 5. Our bodies, our genes and our wellbeing
- Part III. How Our Experience Affects Our Wellbeing: 6. The inequality of wellbeing: some basic facts
- 7. Tools to explain wellbeing
- 8. Explaining wellbeing: a first exploration
- 9. Family, schooling and social media
- 10. Health and healthcare
- 11. Unemployment
- 12. The quality of work
- 13. Income
- 14. Community
- 15. The physical environment and the planet
- Part IV. Government and Wellbeing: 16. How government affects wellbeing
- 17. How wellbeing affects voting
- 18. Cost effectiveness and policy choice.
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