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dc.contributor.authorHaybron, Daniel M.en
dc.contributor.authorTiberius, Valerieen
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-06-
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-24T15:45:01Z-
dc.date.available2012-04-24T15:45:01Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/57571-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aMax Planck Institute of Economics |cJenaen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aPapers on Economics and Evolution |x1202en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.stwLebensqualitäten
dc.subject.stwZufriedenheiten
dc.subject.stwPolitiken
dc.subject.stwSoziale Werteen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleNormative foundations for well-being policy-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn687963184en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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