Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What’s the Use?

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the primary tool used by policymakers to inform administrative decisionmaking. Yet its methodology of converting preferences (often hypothetical ones) into dollar figures, then using those dollar figures as proxies for quality of life, creates significant systemic erro...

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1. VerfasserIn: Adler, Matthew D. (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2013
In:Jahr: 2013
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