Building Happiness Indicators Some Philosophical and Political Issues

Happiness and Political Institutions

The study of individual happiness has enriched economics with many new and sometimes challenging (preliminary) insights.1 More and more often, it is asked about the policy consequences that are to be derived from these insights. We observe that economic research on happiness has an explicit or implicit tendency to follow a “benevolent dictator” approach where the government, and individual poli...

The Doing Business Indicators: Measurement issues and political implications

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Political economy of happiness

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Debt and Deficits: Some Measurement, Economic and Political Issues

Emotion, philosophical issues about.

We start this overview by discussing the place of emotions within the broader affective domain-how different are emotions from moods, sensations, and affective dispositions? Next, we examine the way emotions relate to their objects, emphasizing in the process their intimate relations to values. We move from this inquiry into the nature of emotion to an inquiry into their epistemology. Do they p...