The “Science and Policy” of this metric is the subject of a 2023 textbook written by Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this metric, two types of which are encompassed by Ed Diener’s concept of SWB. An annual UN-sponsored report calculates this measure by asking people to place themselves on Cantril’s ladder.
ANSWER: happiness [or subjective well-being; accept World Happiness Report or Gross National Happiness; accept Wellbeing: Science and Policy; prompt on welfare]
[10h] This economist’s namesake “paradox” claims that, despite income being highly correlated with happiness metrics in the short run, higher incomes do not yield increased happiness over the long run.
ANSWER: Richard Easterlin [or Richard Ainley Easterlin; accept Easterlin paradox]
[10e] This small, landlocked, country created an index of Gross National Happiness under the same government that displaced many of the Lhotsampa people to nearby Nepal.
ANSWER: Bhutan [or Kingdom of Bhutan; accept Druk Yul or Druk Gyal Khap]
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