A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government
A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government
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DOI：
10.1017/bpp.2019.39
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2020-07-01
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Layard, Richard
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作者：
Frijters, Paul;Clark, Andrew E.;Layard, Richard
在这篇文章中，我们列出了福利作为政府目标的基本案例。我们简要回顾一下这一思想的历史，它可以追溯到古希腊，是启蒙运动公认的理想。然后，我们讨论了福祉取向可以基于的可能措施，强调承认公民的政治代理以及他们对自己生活的评估的重要性。然后我们转向实用性和后果：一个人如何真正建立以福祉为导向的决策，我们应该期待从当前的实践中得到什么不同？最后，我们讨论了目前将福利作为政府目标的障碍，包括我们需要更多地了解什么，以及意识形态障碍在哪里。
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 based, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging the political agency of citizens and thus their own evaluations of their lives. We then turn to practicalities and consequences: how would one actually set up well-being-oriented decision-making and what difference should we expect from current practice? We end by discussing the current barriers to the adoption of wellbeing as the goal of government, both in terms of what we need to know more about and where the ideological barriers lie.