Kerman University of Medical Sciences International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2322-5939 13 1 2024 12 01 Well-Being Economics – From Slogan to Discipline?; Comment on “Can a Well-Being Economy Save Us?” 1 3 4673 10.34172/ijhpm.8871 EN Martin Hensher Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia 0000-0001-6444-6827 Journal Article 2024 10 25 <span class="fontstyle0">This commentary addresses Ronald Labonté’s recent editorial, “can a well-being economy save us?” It considers how to assess whether well-being economy policy proposals are likely to achieve real change, or simply represent performative sloganeering. It considers Labonté’s discussion of the congruence between the well-being economy and widely held, cross-cultural values. Finally it explores the relationship between “well-being economics” and the key heterodox economic disciplines it has sprung from, especially ecological and feminist economics; and explores the relationship of well-being economics with degrowth and post-growth economics as policy goals and models, rather than disciplines. Ultimately, a well-being economy can only “save us” if it is fully guided by and constrained within the same hard ecological constraints that must also guide degrowth or post-growth policy prescriptions. </span> https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4673_cfd66e741860718ddecf1f6eabd05fc6.pdf