The economics of happiness: qualitative and quantitative aspects

The ar ticle considers the main qualitative and quantitative aspects of oneof the modern economic concepts - the economics of happiness. It shows theneed to move from the system of existing macroeconomic indicators to theunderstanding and consideration of human values, usually intangible. Thecontent of the category "happiness" is analyzed, its structure is considered.The main characteristics of systems for measuring the level of happiness arehighlighted. It is concluded that there is no unambiguous causal relationshipbetween levels of well-being and happiness, which does not exclude governmentmeasures to improve these levels.