O'Donnell Gus, Oswald Andrew J
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW, United Kingdom.
Frontier Economics, London, United Kingdom.
Ecol Econ. 2015 Dec;120:59-70. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.021. Epub 2015 Oct 24.
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data actually be used? This paper is a cautious attempt to contribute to thinking on that question. It suggests a possible weighting method to calculate first-order changes in society's well-being, discusses some of the potential principles of democratic 'well-being policy', and (as an illustrative example) reports data on how sub-samples of citizens believe feelings might be weighted.
各国政府正逐渐对人类福祉的概念以及如何真正评估它产生兴趣。作为传统经济衡量指标的替代方案，一些国家已开始收集有关公民幸福感、生活满意度及其他心理得分的信息。然而，这些数据究竟该如何使用呢？本文是对思考这一问题的一次谨慎尝试。它提出了一种可能的加权方法来计算社会福祉的一阶变化，讨论了民主“福祉政策”的一些潜在原则，并且（作为一个示例）报告了关于公民子样本如何看待情感可能被加权的数据。
