经济增长、收入差距与国民幸福——幸福经济学研究的经验启示

Economic Growth, Income Gap and National Happiness: Learning from Happiness Economics

改革开放三十多年,我国经济社会呈现的两个典型特征是经济的持续快速增长和收入差距的不断拉大。在我国当前仍处于社会主义初级阶段和收入差距不断拉大、收入分配过程有失公正的背景下,需要并行不悖地大力推动经济增长和缩小收入差距,不可顾此失彼。从实现国民幸福的终极目标出发,结合行为经济学对人内在公平偏好的揭示以及幸福经济学关于幸福与绝对收入、参照收入和收入不平等的关系研究的新进展,弱化收入差距对居民幸福感负向影响的一个重要途径是加强制度建设,促进机会均等,提高社会和收入的流动性。

During the last thirty years since reform and opening- up, there are two typical characteristics in our society, which is rapid economic growth and widening income gap. final goal of national happiness, taking into account the revealing of internal fairness preference of human by Behavioral Economics and new advances of the relationships between happiness and absolute income, relative income and income inequality by Happiness Economics, we think, against the background of co promoting economic An important means building, to provide growth and narrowing income gap. It makes no sense to have one without another. to weaken the negative effect of income gap on happiness is to strengthen system the equal opportunity for all, and to improve social mobility and income mobility.