Wellbeing And Beyond Broadening The Public And Policy Discourse Timo J Hmlainen by Timo J. Hämälainen, Juliet Michaelson (eds.) 9781783472895, 1783472898 instant download after payment.

'I strongly advise you to read this book. In 1934, Professor Simon Kuznets said of the modern world, 'the welfare of a nation [can] scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income' and yet since that time the governments of the industrialized world have paid no attention to such good sense. They have instead become obsessed by the totems of economic growth and GDP. Kuznets would have greatly approved of this volume and I can think of no higher praise. It has taken us exactly 80 years, but we have finally got there. Human well-being is what matters.'
- Professor Andrew J Oswald, University of Warwick, UK

This book will broaden the public and policy discourse on the importance of well-being by examining psychological, social, environmental, economic, organizational, institutional and political determinants of individual well-being.

The public policy discourse on well-being and its indicators has become more active in recent years. However, the vast majority of mainstream policy-making remains unchanged; still couched in the post-war material deprivation framework. The scope needs to be widened beyond an overarching focus on economic success. Turning the discussion to well-being opens the door to the understanding gained by a much broader tranche of those researching human lives across the social and health sciences.

This book will be of interest to individuals following the current public and policy debates about well-being, as well as to policy-makers in fields of social and health care, environmental planning, urban development, and innovation, industrial and economic policy.

Contributors: S. Bartolini, A. Basu, C.L. Cooper, M. Csikszentmihalyi, M. Eriksson, J. Flint-Taylor, T.J. Hämäläinen, J.F. Helliwell, A. Hubert, R. Kaplan, S. Kaplan, B. Lindström, A. Lyon, J. Michaelson, G. Mulgan, M. O'Hara, P. Puska, C. Seaford