Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being
Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being
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10.1007/978-90-481-2350-6_9
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2009-01-01
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Seligman, Martin E. P.
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Diener, Ed;Seligman, Martin E. P.
组织、公司和政府层面的政策决定应该更多地受到与福祉有关的问题的影响，人们对自己生活的评价和感受。国内政策目前主要侧重于经济结果，尽管经济指标忽略、甚至误导了很多社会价值观。我们表明，经济指标有许多缺点，而福祉的衡量指标所指向的重要结论，仅从经济指标来看是不明显的。例如，虽然经济产出在过去几十年里急剧上升，但在此期间，生活满意度并没有上升，抑郁和不信任却大幅增加。我们认为，经济指标在经济发展的早期阶段极为重要，当时满足基本需求是主要问题。然而，随着社会日益富裕，幸福感的差异越来越少是由收入造成的，更多的是由社会关系和工作乐趣等因素造成的。
Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to well-being people's evaluations and feelings about their lives. Domestic policy currently focuses heavily on economic outcomes, although economic indicators omit, and even mislead about, much of what society values. We show that economic indicators have many shortcomings, and that measures of well-being point to important conclusions that are not apparent from economic indicators alone. For example, although economic output has risen steeply over the past decades, there has been no rise in life satisfaction during this period, and there has been a substantial increase in depression and distrust. We argue that economic indicators were extremely important in the early stages of economic development, when the fulfillment of basic needs was the main issue. As societies grow wealthy, however, differences in well-being are less frequently due to income, and are more frequently due to factors such as social relationships and enjoyment at work.