The economics of happiness, public policy, and national success indicators

该项目将提供对幸福的合理分析，考虑到传统福利经济学和幸福研究的最新进展，包括使分析与政策制定更相关，使幸福衡量标准在个人之间、时间上和文化上更具可比性。将制定一个新的更适当的国家成功指标，积极考虑一些适当的幸福衡量标准(调整后的幸福生活年)，消极考虑一些人均外部成本的衡量标准。这将鼓励人们、组织和政府把重点放在对人民幸福有更直接影响的因素上。

The project will provide a sound analysis of happiness, taking account of traditional welfare economics and recent advances in happiness studies, including making the analysis more relevant for policy formulation, making happiness measures more comparable interpersonally, intertemporally, and interculturally. A new and more appropriate national success indicator will be devised that takes positive account of some appropriate measure of happiness (adjusted happy life-years) and negative account of some measure of per capita external costs. This will encourage people, organizations, and governments to focus on factors that have a more direct bearing on people's happiness.