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L'économie du bonheur peut-elle renouveler l'économie du bien-être?

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  • Lucie Davoine

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CEE - Centre d'études de l'emploi - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé)

Abstract

This article questions the increasing use of "happiness" or "subjective well-being" in order to evaluate public policies and social conditions. In more scientific words, can the blossoming economics of happiness revive the economics of welfare, which is said to be dying? The first section puts economics of happiness in the history of economic thought. The second part presents the methodological arguments and proofs of happiness data relevance, as well the results that open on welfare economics renewal and unusual political recommendations. The last part concludes that happiness is a useful criterion to evaluate society's state, but should not be the only one: happiness data can allow avoiding paternalism and ethnocentrism, for example, but happiness economics face several and serious challenges that should prevent researchers from transforming satisfaction scores into the only barometer of public action.

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  • Lucie Davoine, 2008. "L'économie du bonheur peut-elle renouveler l'économie du bien-être?," Working Papers hal-00276218, HAL.
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    1. Nathalie Georges & Dominique Méda & Danièle Trancart, 2010. "Working hours and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction in Couples," Working Papers halshs-00809667, HAL.
    2. Nathalie Georges & Dominique Méda & Danièle Trancart, 2010. "Working hours and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction in Couples," TEPP Working Paper 2010-02, TEPP.

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