LEADER 04595nam 22006015 450 001 9910468228503321 005 20220116053545.0 010 $a9783030566005 010 $a3030566005 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-56600-5 035 $a(CKB)5340000000066932 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6424510 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-56600-5 035 $a(Perlego)3481875 035 $a(EXLCZ)995340000000066932 100 $a20201212d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond Economics $eHappiness as a Standard in our Personal Life and in Politics /$fby Jan Ott 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 161 p.) 311 08$a9783030565992 311 08$a3030565998 327 $a1. Introduction: an old discussion but a new challenge! -- 2. The concept of happiness as subjective well-being -- 3. The measurement of happiness as an actual phenomenon -- 4. Dualism of happiness; the body and the mind again! -- 5. Affective happiness, or the affective component of happiness -- 6. Evaluative happiness, or the evaluative component of happiness -- 7. The explainability of happiness -- 8. Governments and happiness -- 9. Complications in the interpretation and valuation of happiness -- 10. Happiness as a standard in personal life and in politics -- 11. What if? Some policy-options with happiness as a standard -- 12. Summary of main conclusions and discussion. 330 $aThere is a lot of attention for happiness, but there is also a lot of confusion, about the concept and the nature of happiness. This book wants to reduce this confusion, to make the deliberations and discussions about happiness more productive. A reduction of confusion will also make it easier to assess happiness as a possible standard in our personal life and in politics. Acceptance of happiness as a standard will have positive effects. Acceptance in personal life will make individuals more critical, and less vulnerable for adversity and manipulation. Acceptance in politics will contribute to a better detection and analysis of social-economic problems. Such positive effects are important for well-being. Well-being is usually defined as 'objective well-being' by experts, like medical specialists or psychologists. They apply their professional standards like blood pressure or personality characteristics. Happiness, on the other hand, is 'subjective well-being' as experienced by the people themselves. This happiness is the appreciation of one's own life as a whole, and this appreciation is based on standards people have adopted themselves, knowingly or unknowingly. Happiness as subjective well-being, and objective well-being as defined by experts, are complementary. It is important to asses objective and subjective well-being simultaneously, and it is incorrect to ignore one of them. Jan Cornelis Ott studied sociology and law and specialized in social economic policy, labour relations, and public administration. He worked as a policy adviser for the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment and participated in several Conferences of the International Labour Organization. Since 2004 he has worked as a social researcher at the World Database of Happiness at the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization, at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. In 2012 he finished his dissertation "An Eye on Happiness; happiness as an additional goal for citizens and governments". He published many articles about the importance of the quality of governments for well-being and happiness, e.g. in The Journal of Happiness Studies and in Social Indicators Research. 606 $aMacroeconomics 606 $aFinance, Public 606 $aSocial choice 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aMacroeconomics and Monetary Economics 606 $aPublic Economics 606 $aSocial Choice and Welfare 615 0$aMacroeconomics. 615 0$aFinance, Public. 615 0$aSocial choice. 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 14$aMacroeconomics and Monetary Economics. 615 24$aPublic Economics. 615 24$aSocial Choice and Welfare. 676 $a330 676 $a330 700 $aOtt$b Jan$0871665 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910468228503321 996 $aBeyond economics$91945729 997 $aUNINA