The wellbeing economics framework begins with individual persons seeking to create the kinds of lives they value, and have reason to value. These persons are able to make time-use choices they reason will promote wellbeing, influenced by cultural values, personal abilities and social capabilities. The attention to choices about time-use is because persons have equal time to allocate each day, and because time-use choices influence monetary values recorded in market transactions. Persons can expand capabilities through formal education and through relevant experience, which are time-use choices that economists describe as investment in human capital. Progress in wellbeing can be monitored using measures of subjective and objective wellbeing, exemplified in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Better Life Initiative.
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Dalziel, P., Saunders, C., & Saunders, J. (2018). Persons and Human Capital. In Wellbeing Economics (pp. 23–43). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93194-4_2
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