Book review. STONE A. A., MACKIE CH. (eds.), Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience. Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy-Relevant Framework, 2013

Abstract

One of the recently released by the US National Academies of Press reports brings the much awaited (by research community at large, and particularly by statisticians in public statistics offices) product of the CNSTAT-organized Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy-Relevant Framework, entitled Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (edited by Stone and Mackie). It accords with systematically growing interest from various sides, including policy analysts and policy makers and practitioners, in extending the measurement of objective aspects of economic achievements of countries and populations - with GDP as their most celebrated indicator - through accounting also for people's experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going.