Happiness Explained: What Human Flourishing Is and How We Can Promote It
经济学家保罗·阿南德的新书用简洁的四点框架(公平、自主、社区、参与)衡量人类福祉,适合政策制定者和普通读者了解如何超越GDP评估幸福。
Extract: <br/>In his latest book, economist Paul Anand brings the extensive research on the subject to the common man. He does so in a succinct manner, moving seamlessly from first highlighting the over reliance on gross domestic product (GDP) to measure human wellbeing in a country to then providing his own concise, practical framework to measure true fulfilment. Despite the breadth of disciplines that Anand delves into, from psychology to economics to philosophy, he offers a remarkably straightforward four-point guide, which can be employed indifferent contexts and different stages of one’s life to evaluate wellbeing. The four factors are fairness, autonomy, community and engagement: a testament to how social we truly are and how policy makers may need to shift their thinking towards such subjectivity to achieve more promising results in the future.