@techreport{Haybron2012Normative,
abstract = {This paper examines the normative principles that should guide policies aimed at promoting happiness or, more broadly, well-being. After arguing that well-being policy is both legitimate and necessary, we lay out a case for pragmatic subjectivism: given widely accepted principles of respect for persons, well-being policy may not assume any view of well-being, subjectivist or objectivist. Rather it should promote what its intended beneficiaries see as good for them: pleasure for hedonists, excellence for Aristotelians, etc. Specifically, well-being policy should promote citizens' personal welfare values: those values - and not mere preferences - that individuals' see as bearing on their well-being. We suggest a variety of means for determining what people value, but conclude that there is no canonical means of doing this: there will often be some indeterminacy about what people value. Finally, we consider how pragmatic subjectivism works in practice, arguing that headline measures of well-being should include subjective well-being - given that it is so widely and deeply valued - and perhaps other values as well.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Daniel M. Haybron and Valerie Tiberius},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Lebensqualit\"{a}t; Zufriedenheit; Politik; Soziale Werte; Theorie},
language = {eng},
number = {1202},
publisher = {Max-Planck-Inst. f\"{u}r \"{O}konomik},
title = {Normative foundations for well-being policy},
type = {Papers on economics and evolution},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57571},
year = {2012}
}
