A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
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Keywords
subjective wellbeing; life satisfaction; public policy; political economy; social welfare;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2019-12-09 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HIS-2019-12-09 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2019-12-09 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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