Special issue: Happiness and public economics - Introduction

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Layard, Richard
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.02.002
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1773-1776
• 关键词: happiness; public economics

摘要

The findings of behavioural economics and happiness research pose serious challenges for public policy analysis. Key findings relate to externality (people's happiness depends on what others have) mistakes (which arise from ignorance or misforecasting of happiness), and tastes (which are not exogenous but affected by public policy). In this special issue the author discusses how to modify the traditional framework to allow for these uncomfortable facts, and how to exploit our new knowledge about how income and other variables affect happiness. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.