Improve your experience. We are very sorry but this website does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend using a different browser that is supported such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

INTRODUCTION TO WELLBEING ECONOMICS

This course is intended to give participants an introduction to the concepts and evidence from wellbeing economics most useful in a policy context.

Description

This course is intended to give participants an introduction to the concepts and evidence from wellbeing economics most useful in a policy context. Wellbeing economics supports better public policy to improve human lives. It explicitly recognises the canvas of human concerns beyond income and material consumption, and draws on knowledge from other disciplines such as psychology and philosophy. Yet it also applies and builds on well-established tools in welfare economics, such as constrained dynamic optimisation and comparative institutional analysis. These tools help explain why people make the choices they do, and the role policy can play to promote broad and sustainable wellbeing in liberal democracies such as Aotearoa New Zealand.

Press enter to see more results