... and the Pursuit of Happiness
By:Philip Booth,Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)
Published on 2012-01-01 by Inst of Economic Affairs
|This monograph brings together a series of essays which do two things. Those essays that mainly fall in the second half of the monograph examine the fundamental premise that the government should try to maximise wellbeing as the [British] prime minister has implied - this relates to the philosophical issues that I wrestled with as an undergraduate. What happens when this approach conflicts with fundamental moral precepts or inhibits liberty to an unacceptable degree? If government intervention to increase national income does not work, then why should government intervention to increase measured wellbeing? Should we direct society towards a single common goal? The earlier essays examine some common empirical myths that are often used to justify government intervention to promote wellbeing. In summary, they show that unequal societies are not, in fact, less happy and how wellbeing indicators are very blunt measures that are not generally related to other variables to which we would expect them to be related.|--P. 16.
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