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WELLBEING IN POLITICS
AND POLICY
Series Editors: Ian Bache, Karen Scott
and Paul Allin
WELLBEING
ECONOMICS
The Capabilities
Approach to Prosperity
Paul Dalziel,
Caroline Saunders
and Joe Saunders
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
Series Editors
Ian Bache
Department of Politics
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
Karen Scott
Cornwall Campus
Exeter University
Penryn, Cornwall, UK
Paul Allin
Department of Mathematics
Imperial College London
London, UK
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy will bring new lenses through which to under-
stand the significance of the dramatic rise of interest in wellbeing as a goal of
public policy. While a number of academic disciplines have been influential in
both shaping and seeking to explain developments, the Politics discipline has
been relatively silent, leaving important theoretical and empirical insights largely
absent from debates: insights that have increasing significance as political inter-
est grows. This series will provide a distinctive addition to the field that puts
politics and policy at the centre, while embracing interdisciplinary contribu-
tions. Contributions will be encouraged from various subfields of the discipline
(e.g., political theory, comparative politics, governance and public policy, inter-
national relations) and from those located in other disciplines that speak to core
political themes (e.g., accountability, gender, inequality, legitimacy and power).
The series will seek to explore these themes through policy studies in a range of
settings – international, national and local. Comparative studies – either of dif-
ferent policy areas and/or across different settings – will be particularly encour-
aged. The series will incorporate a wide range of perspectives from critical to
problem-solving approaches, drawing on a variety of epistemologies and meth-
odologies. The series welcomes Pivots, edited collections and monographs.
Wellbeing Economics
The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity
Paul Dalziel Caroline Saunders
Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit
Lincoln University Lincoln University
Lincoln, New Zealand Lincoln, New Zealand
Joe Saunders
Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
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Preface
Wellbeing is a word that has entered the vocabulary of almost everyone con-
cerned with current economic and social trends, with good reason. Many fami-
lies and communities struggle with issues of wellbeing (including various forms
of depression, addiction and self-harm). Obtaining paid employment is no lon-
ger sufficient for a person to be confident of earning enough resources to sup-
port wellbeing; instead, the market economy is creating large numbers of jobs
that pay less than the living wage, reinforced by new forms of work such as
zero-hour contracts and the gig economy. Measures of objective and subjective
wellbeing indicate that rising prosperity is not shared by everyone, and some
groups of people are falling further behind.
Observations such as these have stimulated global attention to wellbeing. A
major impulse was the 2009 Report by the Commission on the Measurement of
Economic Performance and Social Progress, headed by Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya
Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi. The report concluded as its main theme that “the
time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring eco-
nomic production to measuring people’s well-being”. This shift is taking place
around the world, including in the United Kingdom, where the Measuring
National Wellbeing Programme was initiated in November 2010 by the then
Prime Minister, David Cameron.
International organisations are implementing programmes to measure and
promote wellbeing. Important examples include the wellbeing conceptual
framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), the quality of life framework of the European Union, the indicators
v
vi Preface
of global development maintained by the World Bank and the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development created by the United Nations.
Despite this renewed focus on wellbeing, the priority of regional and national
decision-makers typically remains tied to economic growth. David Cameron,
for example, emphasised this priority at the launch of the United Kingdom’s
Measuring National Wellbeing Programme: “Now, let me be very, very clear,” he
said, “growth is the essential foundation of all our aspirations.” Even as scientific
evidence shows with increasing clarity that current patterns of economic pro-
duction are causing dangerous climate change, the political impetus for higher
growth in gross domestic product remains unabated.
There have been counter voices. A courageous example was Tim Jackson’s
report for the UK Sustainable Development Commission, published in March
2009. Entitled Prosperity without Growth, it set out in a compelling manner how
a genuine focus on wellbeing will require a different approach to economics.
This book responds to Jackson’s challenge. It does not claim to develop a new
economics; rather it seeks to recover insights from the economics tradition on
how persons can create wellbeing through personal effort and through collabo-
ration with others at different levels of choice-making. Thus, the reader will find
the text is peppered with references to scholars recognised as giants in the field,
from Adam Smith writing in the eighteenth century to recent recipients of the
Nobel Prize in Economics. We draw on key elements in their work, supple-
mented by the published findings of other researchers, to create a synthesis that
we call the wellbeing economics framework.
The framework is developed in this book as a series of 24 propositions, begin-
ning with the proposition that the primary purpose of economics is to contrib-
ute to enhanced wellbeing of persons. Subsequent analysis then explains how
this purpose can be achieved. Public policy is important in this analysis, but it is
not the sole, or even the first, focus of the book. Instead, the framework recog-
nises that wellbeing is supported by capabilities at several different levels of
choice-making, with successive chapters focusing on persons, households and
families, civil society, the market economy, local government, the Nation State
and the global community.
We received considerable assistance as we prepared this book. Our thanks
begin with colleagues, students, clients and partners of the Agribusiness and
Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University and of the Inter-Disciplinary
Ethics Applied Centre at the University of Leeds. The strong collegiality and
engagement at both institutes contributed to the development of our ideas and
analysis expressed in this book.
Preface
vii
Index 191
ix
About the Authors
Paul Dalziel has been Professor of Economics at Lincoln University since 2002. His
research concentrates on regional and national economic policies, particularly the way in
which they affect the wellbeing of persons. He has served on the Council of the Regional
Science Association International, 2011–2013, and is Executive Officer of its Australia
and New Zealand branch. He is Ambassador in New Zealand for the Regional Studies
Association.
Caroline Saunders has been Director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research
Unit at Lincoln University since 2002. Her research focuses on sustainable wellbeing.
She received the NZIER Economics Award in 2007 and was made an Officer of the New
Zealand Order of Merit in 2009 for contributions to agricultural research. She is the
2019–2020 President of the Agricultural Economic Society.
Joe Saunders was a teaching fellow in the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre at
the University of Leeds during the writing of this book, and is now Assistant Professor in
Post-Kantian Philosophy at the University of Durham. In 2015, he was awarded the
Robert Papazian Annual Essay Prize on Themes from Ethics and Political Philosophy.
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List of Figures
xiii
xiv List of Figures
Fig. 9.4 Framework for local government action. (Source: Developed from
Saunders and Dalziel (2004, Fig. 1, p. 364)) 181
Fig. 9.5 Personal skills and firm capabilities. (Source: Figs. 2.2 and 5.1) 183
Fig. 9.6 Integration of personal skills and firm capabilities. (Source: Integration
of the two diagrams in Fig. 9.5) 184
List of Tables
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From Economic Growth to Wellbeing
Economics
how our economy is growing, but by how our lives are improving; not just by
our standard of living, but by our quality of life” (Cameron 2010, par. 1; see
Allin and Hand 2017, for an explanation of the programme and its background).
That initiative reflected a wider global trend. Six years earlier, the Australian
Treasury had published a wellbeing framework for analysis and policy advice
(Treasury 2004; Gorecki and Kelly 2012). In 2008, French President Nicholas
Sarkozy had set up the Commission on the Measurement of Economic
Performance and Social Progress, headed by Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and
Jean Paul Fitoussi. The unifying theme of its report was: “the time is ripe for our
measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to
measuring people’s well-being” (Stiglitz et al. 2009, p. 12). In 2010, Italy simi-
larly launched BES (benessere equo e sostenibile), involving multi-dimensional
measures of equitable and sustainable wellbeing (CNEL and ISTAT 2010).
At the supranational level, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development has created a wellbeing framework with three pillars: quality of
life, material living conditions and sustainability (OECD 2011, 2013, 2015,
2017a). The statistical system of the European Union similarly offers a quality of
life framework organised into eight themes of objective wellbeing indicators
plus a ninth theme for subjective or self-evaluated measures (Eurostat 2015).
The World Bank (2016) has compiled 1300 data series as indicators of global
development and the quality of people’s lives in more than 200 countries. The
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a vision of a world where
physical, mental and social wellbeing are assured (United Nations 2015, par. 7).
These developments are consistent with a long tradition in economics that
aims to promote the wellbeing of people. Consider, for example, the critique of
mercantilism in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the book that founded modern
economics (Smith 1776, Volume 2, p. 179):
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the
producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting
that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be
absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the con-
sumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to con-
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