Lycka: nyckeln till en önskvärd socialpolitik - en begreppsanalys

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This essay deals with the same task that utilitarians have tried to solve for a long time, what is happiness? In the eighteenth-century utilitarians suggested that happiness should be the base for social political decisions. But the lack of definition disposed so that GDP became the measurement of happiness, which proved to be wrong when the unhappiness continued to increase. More than two hundred years later scientists came up with a new definition of happiness and new ways to measure it. And during the last decade economists have taken the discussion to a higher level. So once again we?re dealing with the same old issue, if happiness ought to be the base of social political decisions. In order to make it possible we have to review the definition and it?s measurements. But also look into what ...