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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Haybron, Daniel M. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Tiberius, Valerie | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-03-06 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-04-24T15:45:01Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-04-24T15:45:01Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2012 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57571 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Max-Planck-Inst. für Ökonomik Jena | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Papers on economics and evolution 1202 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebensqualität | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Zufriedenheit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Politik | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Soziale Werte | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Theorie | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Normative foundations for well-being policy | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 687963184 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | Papers on Economics and Evolution, MPI für Ökonomik
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