WELL-BEING AND UTILITY IN PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

这个项目汇集了一个由心理学家和经济学家组成的紧密的跨学科团队，代表了许多不同的观点，研究如何最好地评估整体福利及其决定因素。“总体福利”一词在这里指的是综合了各个领域的经济和主观效用，并考虑到个人价值差异的综合衡量标准。作为公共政策选择和个人选择的基础，衡量整体福利具有巨大的实际重要性。例如，社会保障和医疗保险

This project brings together a tight-knit interdisciplinary team of psychologists and economists representing many different viewpoints to study how best to assess overall welfare and its determinants. The term overall welfare refers here to a summary measure that incorporates economic and subjective utilities in a variety of domains, with consideration of individual value differences. Measurement of overall welfare is of immense practical importance as a basis for public policy choices as well as personal choices. For example, Social Security and Medicare policies involve tradeoffs both over time and between expenditures that influence health, the ability of people to retire, and other public priorities, which must be sorted out by either an implicit or explicit concept of overall welfare. Personal choices by individuals in the cohorts in or nearing retirement face the same kinds of tradeoffs whose study also requires improved measurement techniques and analytic strategies.