What is it about?
The paper introduces countries and cities that focus on creating wellbeing: the Gross National Happiness of Bhutan, National Decarbonization Plan of Costa Rica, the Wellbeing budget of New Zealand, and the doughnut economy of Amsterdam. The wellbeing policy framework abandons the idea of GDP-centered economic growth and directly targets human wellbeing and ecological regeneration.
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Why is it important?
The paper introduces new approaches of interpreting and measuring wellbeing.
Perspectives
The paper inspires alternative ways of measuring and interpreting wellbeing in case of countries and cities.
Dr Gábor Kovács
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
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This page is a summary of: Wellbeing Policies for Countries and Cities, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38016-7_14.
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