Misery： The Price of Social Welfare？

• 作者: STEPHEN BOURNE
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: 社会福利 痛苦 价格 精神状态 经验数据
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（10）
• 页码范围: 66-66
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: C913.7

摘要

<正>I’VE always tried to be a happy person, but I’m now considering creating a Misery Index, to measure which countries have the least successful social welfare packages. My problem is that misery is a state of mind which is not readily measurable in terms of empirical data. Perhaps I will conclude that I will just have to assess relative misery by